Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner’s Pension and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2025
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Operation of section 124A and repeal of section 124-savers | ||
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9. The Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following section after section 124A: | ||
“124B. (1) Notwithstanding anything in section 124A, a person who— | ||
(a) by virtue of being a woman who would otherwise have been a widow but for the fact that her marriage was dissolved, being a dissolution that was recognised as valid in the State— | ||
(i) was in receipt of a widow’s (contributory) pension on the passing of the Act of 2025, or | ||
(ii) would have been entitled to a widow’s (contributory) pension immediately before the passing of the Act of 2025 by virtue of the date of death of her husband preceding such passing, | ||
(b) by virtue of being a man who would otherwise have been a widower but for the fact that his marriage was dissolved, being a dissolution that was recognised as valid in the State— | ||
(i) was in receipt of a widower’s (contributory) pension on the passing of the Act of 2025, or | ||
(ii) would have been entitled to a widower’s (contributory) pension immediately before the passing of the Act of 2025 by virtue of the date of death of his wife preceding such passing, | ||
or | ||
(c) by virtue of being a person who would have been a surviving civil partner but for the fact that his or her civil partnership was dissolved, being a dissolution that was recognised as valid in the State, where he or she— | ||
(i) was in receipt of a surviving civil partner’s (contributory) pension on the passing of the Act of 2025, or | ||
(ii) would have been entitled to a surviving civil partner’s (contributory) pension immediately before the passing of the Act of 2025 by virtue of the date of death of his or her civil partner preceding such passing, | ||
shall, on the passing of the Act of 2025, having satisfied the conditions in subsection (1) of section 124A, be regarded as being entitled to a bereaved partner’s pension. | ||
(2) Notwithstanding the repeal of section 124 by section 7 of the Act of 2025, a person who immediately before the passing of that Act was entitled to a pension in accordance with subsection (4) of section 124, shall continue to be entitled to a pension as if that section was still in operation. | ||
(3) In this section— | ||
‘civil partner’s (contributory) pension’, ‘surviving civil partner’, ‘widow’, ‘widow’s (contributory) pension’, ‘widower’ and ‘widower’s (contributory) pension’ each have the same meaning as they had in this Act before the passing of the Act of 2025.”. |