# Social Security Act 1975, Paragraph 1


(1) There shall be taken into account towards the widow's entitlement any reckonable contribution years of the husband, that is to say years for which his own earnings factor was sufficient for satisfaction of paragraph (b) of the second contribution condition; and the widow shall be treated as satisfying that paragraph if the number of years arrived at either under paragraph 2 or under paragraph 3 below is equal to or exceeds that which is in her case the requisite number of years for the purposes of the condition.
(2) In this Schedule—
" the second contribution condition " means the second of the conditions for a Category A retirement pension specified in Schedule 3, paragraph 5 ; and
" year " means a tax year.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1975/14/schedule/7/paragraph/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1975/schedule-7/paragraph-1
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