(1) Subject to subsection (2), in this Chapter -

"Act of 2025" means the Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2025;

"bereaved partner" means a widow, a widower, a surviving civil partner or a surviving qualified cohabitant;

"civil partner" -(a) shall not include a person who would otherwise be a civil partner but for the fact that his or her civil partnership has been dissolved, being a dissolution that is recognised as valid in the State, and(b) in relation to a surviving civil partner who has been party to a civil partnership more than once, refers only to the surviving civil partner's last civil partner;

"deceased partner" means, in respect of a bereaved partner, the last deceased spouse, civil partner or qualified cohabitant, as the case may be, of the bereaved partner;