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Amendment of section 121 of Act of 2010
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158. Section 121 is amended—
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(a) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (2):
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“(2) On granting a decree of dissolution or at any other time after it is granted, the court, on application to it in that behalf by either of the civil partners or by a person on behalf of a dependent child of the civil partners, may during the lifetime of a member civil partner, make an order providing for the payment, in accordance with this section and sections 122 to 126, to—
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(a) the other civil partner, or
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(b) a person specified in the order for the benefit of a dependent child of the civil partners for so long as that child remains a dependent child of the civil partners,
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of a benefit consisting of the part of the benefit that is payable (or that, but for the making of the decree, would have been payable) under the scheme and has accrued at the time of the making of the decree, or of the part of that part that the court considers appropriate.”,
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(b) in subsection (3)(b), by the substitution of “the other civil partner or to the person on behalf of the dependent child of the civil partners, as the case may be” for “the other civil partner”,
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(c) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (5):
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“(5) On granting a decree of dissolution or at any time within one year after it is granted, the court, on application to it in that behalf by either of the civil partners or by a person on behalf of a dependent child of the civil partners, may make an order providing for the payment, on the death of the member civil partner, to—
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(a) the other civil partner, or
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(b) a person specified in the order for the benefit of a dependent child of the civil partners,
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of that part of a contingent benefit that is payable (or that, but for the making of the decree, would have been payable) under the scheme, or of the part of that part, that the court considers appropriate.”,
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and
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(d) in subsection (7), by the substitution of “member or for a dependent child of the civil partners concerned under” for “member under”.
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