# The Social Security (Civil Partnership) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005, Regulation 2: Amendment of the Social Security (Widow’s Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Regulations

Extent: N.I.

(1) The Social Security (Widow’s Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1979 shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).
(2) In regulation 1(2) (interpretation) after the definition of “bereavement allowance” 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) (days to be treated as days of increment) after “neither married to,” there shall be inserted “or in a civil partnership with,”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/539/regulation/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-civil-partnership-consequential-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/regulation-2
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