The Pensions Act 2014 (Pension Sharing on Divorce etc.) (Transitional Provision) Order 2016

This is the first transitional provision Order made in respect of Part 1 of the Pensions Act 2014 (c.19). It makes transitional provision in relation to the coming into force on 6th April 2016 of sections 13 to 15 of, and Schedules 8 to 11 to, that Act. These provisions allow for the continuation of state pension sharing on divorce or nullity of a marriage or dissolution or annulment of a civil partnership for people who reach state pension age on or after 6th April 2016 and are entitled to the new state pension at the transitional rate. These provisions also make amendments to existing legislation to distinguish rights to an old state pension which are shareable from rights to a new state pension which are shareable.