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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carers-assistance-carer-support-payment-scotland-regulations-2023-consequential-amendments-order-2023/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2023/1218",
  "legislation_title": "The Carer’s Assistance (Carer Support Payment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carers-assistance-carer-support-payment-scotland-regulations-2023-consequential-amendments-order-2023",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Social Security (Widow’s Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Regulations 1979",
  "text": "(1) The Social Security (Widow’s Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Regulations 1979 are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 4(1)(b) (days to be treated as days of increment)—\n(a) at the end of sub-paragraph (iv), for “and” substitute “or”;\n(b) after sub-paragraph (iv) insert—\n“(v) carer support payment under the Carer’s Assistance (Carer Support Payment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023; and”.\n(3) In regulation 17 (provisions relating to age addition for persons not in receipt of a retirement pension), after paragraph (1)(g) insert—\n“(ga) the Carer’s Assistance (Carer Support Payment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1979/642; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1991/2742, 2002/2497, 2006/516 and 2011/634."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/1218/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:38:37.511625+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}