Regulation 101 Meaning of “surviving partner”F1

United Kingdom

(1)

A person (P) is a surviving partner of a deceased member of this scheme if P satisfies the scheme manager that immediately before the member’s death—

(a)

P and the member were cohabiting as partners in an exclusive, committed long-term relationship;

(b)

P and the member were not prevented from entering into a marriage or a civil partnership; and

(c)

either P was financially dependent on the member, or P and the member were financially interdependent.

Annotations

F1: Reg. 101 substituted (with effect from 1.4.2015) by The Public Service (Civil Servants and Others) Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/537), regs. 1(2)(b), 20