" (a) if the deceased is survived by one widow, a widower or a surviving civil partner, to the widow, widower or surviving civil partner,".

" (a) if the deceased is survived by one widow, a widower or a surviving civil partner, to the widow, widower, or surviving civil partner,".

(a) a parent, brother or sister of the appointor who is not married or is not a civil partner and has never been married or a civil partner, and

(b) a parent, step-parent, brother or sister of the appointor who is widowed or is a surviving civil partner.".

" (a) if the person nominated dies, marries or forms a civil partnership, on that death, marriage or formation of civil partnership; or".

" (b) if the appointor marries or forms a civil partnership, on that marriage or formation of civil partnership.".

(a) any period of pensionable employment after 5th April 1988;

(b) any period beginning after 5th April 1988 in respect of which additional contributions have been paid under regulation C8 or C9;

(c) any period in respect of which additional contributions have been paid under regulation C5 or C7(1) in accordance with an election made on or after 6th April 1988;

(d) any period of reckonable service in respect of which family benefit contributions have been paid under Part IIA of Schedule 6 or are treated as having been paid under Part III of Schedule 6 in respect of an election made under Part IIA;

(e) where a transfer value has been accepted in respect of comparable British service, any period which consists of or is attributable to service after 5th April 1988; and

(f) where the teacher entered pensionable employment after 5th April 1988 and a transfer value (other than one mentioned in sub paragraph (e)) was accepted, any period counting as reckonable service by virtue of the acceptance of the transfer value.".

(a) shall not, unless the Scottish Ministers determine otherwise, be payable if, at the date of the deceased's death, the person to whom it would (apart from this sub-paragraph) have been payable is living with someone else as if they were husband and wife or as if they were civil partners; and

(b) shall not, unless the Scottish Ministers determine otherwise, be payable after the person to whom it was payable marries or forms a civil partnership or begins to live with someone else as if they were husband and wife or as if they were civil partners; and

(c) if the Scottish Ministers so decide, may be payable on the person to whom it would (apart from sub paragraph (a) or (b)) have been payable again becoming a widow, widower or surviving civil partner, or on termination of any such marriage, civil partnership or, as the case may be, of the period of cohabitation.".

(a) a civil partner; and

(b) in pensionable employment.

    (2) A qualifying teacher may by giving notice in writing to the Scottish Ministers before the end of the election period elect to pay family benefit contributions attributable to a period of his or her reckonable service which ended before 6th April 1988.

    (3) If a qualifying teacher dies before the end of the election period without making an election under sub-paragraph (2), his or her surviving civil partner may by giving notice in writing to the Scottish Ministers within 3 months of the qualifying teacher's death elect to pay family benefit contributions attributable to a period of the qualifying teacher's reckonable service which ended before 6th April 1988.

    (4) The election period begins on the day on which a teacher first becomes a qualifying teacher (in respect of each civil partnership he or she forms) and ends on the earlier of the day on which–

(a) any election he or she makes under regulation B6 has effect, and

(b) he or she has been a qualifying teacher for a continuous period of 6 months.