Regulation 2 Amendment of the Social Security (Widow’s Benefit and Retirement Pensions) RegulationsI1

Northern Ireland

(1)

The Social Security (Widow’s Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1979^f1 shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).

(2)

In regulation 1(2) (interpretation) after the definition of “bereavement allowance”^f2 there shall be inserted the following definition—

““civil partner” in relation to any person who has been in a civil partnership more than once means the last civil partner;”.

(3)

In regulation 4(1)(d)(ii)^f3 (days to be treated as days of increment) after “neither married to,” there shall be inserted “or in a civil partnership with,”.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Reg. 2 in operation at 5.12.2005, see reg. 1(1)

Footnotes

f1: S.R. 1979 No. 243; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 2001 No. 108 and S.R. 2005 No. 120
f2: The definition of “bereavement allowance” was inserted by regulation 8(2)(b) of S.R. 2001 No. 108
f3: Sub-paragraph (d) was inserted by regulation 4(4)(b)(ii) of S.R. 2005 No. 120