"Act of 2010" means the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010;
"Act of 2015" means the Marriage Act 2015;
"civil partnership registration" has the meaning assigned to it by the Act of 2010;
"member" shall be construed in accordance with subsection (2);
"retires", in relation to a member, includes early retirement of a member under the defined benefit scheme concerned;
(2) In this Part references to ‘member’ includes, in addition to the meaning assigned to it by section 2, a member who has died and references to ‘member’ shall be construed accordingly.
(3) In this Part references to a day on which a member retires or has retired shall be construed as meaning the day on which a benefit under the defined benefit scheme concerned becomes payable to the member.