Paragraph 3 Graduated retirement benefit for persons who have been married more than once

For the purposes of section 37 of the 1965 Act (special provisions as to graduated retirement benefit for widows and widowers) a person who has been married more than once F1or has formed more than one civil partnership or who has been both married and a civil partner and who is entitled to graduated retirement benefit for any period by virtue of the provisions of that section in respect of a second or subsequent spouse F2or civil partner shall not be precluded from entitlement to graduated retirement benefit for that period by virtue of that section in respect of a former spouse or civil partner, but shall be so entitled to the extent only that it is payable to him or her by the application of section 36(4) of the 1965 Act in respect of any period before the death of the first-mentioned spouse or civil partner.