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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contracting-out-widowers-guaranteed-minimum-pensions-regulations-1987/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1100",
  "legislation_title": "The Contracting-out (Widowers' Guaranteed Minimum Pensions) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contracting-out-widowers-guaranteed-minimum-pensions-regulations-1987",
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  "kind": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations are all made under provisions of the Social Security Act 1986 (“the 1986 Act”) or provisions inserted into the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 (“the 1975 Act”) by the 1986 Act, and are made before the end of a period of 12 months from the commencement of those provisions. Consequently, by virtue of section 61(5) of that Act, the provisions of section 61(2) and (3) of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 (as amended by section 86(1) of, and paragraph 94 of Schedule 10 to, the 1986 Act), which require reference to the Occupational Pensions Board of, and a report by the Board on, proposals to make regulations for certain purposes of both Acts, do not apply to them.\nSection 9(3) of the 1986 Act amends section 36 of the 1975 Act so that, in certain circumstances, an occupational pension scheme has to provide widowers' as well as widows' pensions if it is to be contracted-out.\nRegulation 2 of these Regulations inserts into the Occupational Pension Schemes (Contracting-out) Regulations 1984 3 new regulations, 33B to 33D. Regulation 33B sets out the circumstances in which a widower’s pension is to be payable: they are related to the ages of the widower and the earner, and to his entitlement (if any) to child benefit. Regulation 33C specifies the period for which a widower’s pension is to be payable. Regulation 33D provides that in certain provisions of the 1975 Act, concerning schemes which have ceased to be contracted-out, the references to a person entitled to receive a guaranteed minimum pension include the widower of an earner only in the case where the earner and the widower were both over pensionable age when the earner died.",
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  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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