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(1) This Order may be cited as the Civil Partnership (Miscellaneous and Consequential Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2005 and, subject to paragraph (2), shall come into operation on 5th December 2005.
(2) Paragraph 1 of the Schedule, shall come into operation, for the purposes only of making regulations under section 62 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992, on 2nd December 2005.
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The Schedule, (which provides for the extension of certain provisions to civil partners and surviving civil partners) shall have effect.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 31st October 2005.
Philip Angus
A senior officer of the
Department for Social Development

SCHEDULE
Article 2
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In section 62(1) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (graduated retirement benefit), after paragraph (ab) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—“
(ac) for extending section 36 of that Act (increase of woman’s retirement pension by reference to her late husband’s graduated retirement benefit) to civil partners and their late civil partners who attain pensionable age before 6th April 2010 and for that section (except subsection (5)) so to apply as it applies to men and their late wives;”.
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In Article 162 of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (pensions on divorce etc.)—
(a) after paragraph (4) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—“
(4A) Nothing in the provisions mentioned in paragraph (5) applies to a court exercising its powers under Part 5 of Schedule 15 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (making of Part 1 orders having regard to pension benefits).”; and
(b) in paragraph (5), for “paragraph (4)” there shall be substituted “paragraphs (4) and (4A)”.