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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-and-benefits-northern-ireland-act-1992/schedule-5/paragraph-5",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1992/7",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-and-benefits-northern-ireland-act-1992",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Where—\n(a) a widow, widower or surviving civil partner (call that person “W”) is entitled to a Category A or Category B retirement pension and was married to or was the civil partner of the other party to the marriage or civil partnership (call that person “S”) when S dies, and\n(b) S either—\n(i) was entitled to a guaranteed minimum pension with an increase under section 11(1) of the Pensions Act, or\n(ii) would have been so entitled if S had retired on the date of S’s death,\nthe rate of W’s pension shall be increased by the following amount.\n(2) The amount is—\n(a) where W is a woman—\n(i) whose deceased spouse was a man, or\n(ii) who falls within paragraph 7(3) below,\nan amount equal to the sum of the amounts set out in paragraph 5A(2) or (3) below (as the case may be), ...\n(b) where W is a man whose deceased spouse was a woman, an amount equal to the sum of the amounts set out in paragraph 6(2), (3) or (4) below (as the case may be), and\n(c) where W is—\n(i) a woman who does not fall within paragraph 7(3) below and whose deceased spouse was a woman,\n(ii) a man whose deceased spouse was a man, or\n(iii) a surviving civil partner,\nan amount equal to the sum of the amounts set out in paragraph 6A(2) below.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 5, paras. 5, 5A, 6 substituted (16.12.1995) for Sch. 5 paras. 5 and 6 by S.I. 1995/3213 (N.I. 22), arts. 1, 123, Sch. 2 para. 18(15)(16)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 1 modified (13.12.1995) by S.I. 1995/3213, art. 123, Sch. 2 Pt. III para. 18(16)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 5(1)(a) substituted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Pensions and Benefit Payments) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2005 (S.R. 2005/434), art. 1(3), Sch. para. 6(g)(i)(aa)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 5(1)(a) inserted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Pensions and Benefit Payments) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2005 (S.R. 2005/434), art. 1(3), Sch. para. 6(g)(i)(bb)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 5(1)(a) inserted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Pensions and Benefit Payments) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2005 (S.R. 2005/434), art. 1(3), Sch. para. 6(g)(i)(cc)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 5(2)(a) substituted (13.1.2020) by The Marriage (Same-sex Couples) and Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1514), regs. 1(2), 66(18)(a)(i) (with regs. 6-9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 5 para. 5(2) omitted (5.12.2005) by virtue of The Civil Partnership (Pensions and Benefit Payments) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2005 (S.R. 2005/434), art. 1(3), Sch. para. 6(g)(ii)(aa)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 5(2)(b) substituted (13.1.2020) by The Marriage (Same-sex Couples) and Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1514), regs. 1(2), 66(18)(a)(ii) (with regs. 6-9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 5(2)(c) and preceding word inserted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Pensions and Benefit Payments) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2005 (S.R. 2005/434), art. 1(3), Sch. para. 6(g)(ii)(bb)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 5(2)(c) substituted (13.1.2020) by The Marriage (Same-sex Couples) and Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1514), regs. 1(2), 66(18)(a)(iii) (with regs. 6-9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 paras. 4-7 modified (6.10.2002) by S.R. 2001/441, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 5 applied (with modifications) (3.3.2009 for specified purposes, 6.4.2009 in so far as not already in force) by Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 (c. 1), ss. 12(10), 21(1); S.R. 2009/75, art. 2(a)(b)"
    }
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/7/schedule/5/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:36:23.179265+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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