[51 Category B retirement pension for widows, widowers and surviving civil partners who attained pensionable age before 6 April 2010]

[51  Category B retirement pension for widows, widowers and surviving civil partners who attained pensionable age before 6 April 2010]

[(1)     A person (“the pensioner”) whose spouse died while they were married is entitled to a Category B retirement pension if—

(a)     they were both over pensionable age at the time of the death,

(b)     the pensioner attained pensionable age before 6 April 2010, and

(c)     the spouse satisfied the relevant contribution condition.

(2)     But subsection (1) does not confer a right to a Category B retirement pension on—

(a)     a woman whose husband has died, or

(b)     a man whose wife died before 6 April 1979.

(3)     In subsection (1)(c) “the relevant contribution condition” means—

(a)     in a case where the spouse attained pensionable age before 6 April 2010, the conditions in paragraph 5 of Schedule 3, and

(b)

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