{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2014-consequential-supplementary-and-incidental-amendments-order-2017/article-8",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2017/422",
  "legislation_title": "The Pensions Act 2014 (Consequential, Supplementary and Incidental Amendments) Order 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2014-consequential-supplementary-and-incidental-amendments-order-2017",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Social Security (General Benefit) Regulations 1982",
  "text": "(1) The Social Security (General Benefit) Regulations 1982 are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 1(2) (interpretation), omit the definition of “bereavement benefit”.\n(3) In regulation 2(2) (exceptions from disqualification for imprisonment etc.), for “bereavement benefit” substitute “widowed parent’s allowance”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 8 in force at 6.4.2017 in accordance with, see arts. 1(2), 2, 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1982/1408."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The definition of “bereavement benefit” was inserted by S.I. 2000/1483."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "The words “bereavement benefit” were inserted into regulation 2 by S.I. 2000/1483."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/422/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:12:30.171892+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."
}