Regulation 4

(1)

This regulation shall apply to a widow who is in receipt of a pension increased under any of the following provisions of the old cases Regulations, namely under—

(a)

regulation 30 (discretionary increase in widow’s ordinary pension);

(b)

regulation 33 (discretionary increase in widow’s special pension); or

(c)

regulation 35 (discretionary increase in widow’s award under former Acts),

where the increase is payable in respect of a period which includes a day in the week beginning with 7th December 1987.

(2)

Except where a widow to whom this regulation applies is entitled to a payment by virtue of the Pensioners' Lump Sum Payments Order 1987, the police authority shall pay her a gratuity of £10.

(3)

For the purposes of regulation 49 of the old cases Regulations (prevention of duplication), a gratuity under this regulation shall be ignored.