Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010

Other provisions for orders under section 121 .

126.— (1) Section 54 of the Act of 1990 and regulations made under that section apply with any necessary modifications to a scheme if proceedings for the grant of a decree of dissolution to which a member civil partner is a party have been instituted, and continue to apply notwithstanding the grant of the decree of dissolution.

(2) For the purposes of this section and sections 121 to 125 , the court may, of its own motion, and shall, if so requested by either of the civil partners or another concerned person, direct the trustees of the scheme to provide the civil partners or the other person and the court, within a specified period—

(a) with a calculation of the value and amount, determined in accordance with relevant guidelines, of the retirement benefit or contingent benefit that is payable or that, but for the making of the order for the decree of dissolution, would have been payable under the scheme and has accrued at the time of making the order, and

(b) with a calculation of the amount of the contingent benefit that is payable or that, but for the making of the order for the decree of dissolution concerned, would have been payable, under the scheme.