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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-australia-order-1992-revoked/schedule-1/paragraph-wrapper6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/1312",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Australia) Order 1992 (revoked)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-australia-order-1992-revoked",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/wrapper6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": null,
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) For the purpose of determining entitlement to widow’s benefit under the legislation of any part of the territory of the United Kingdom, a widow who is permanently resident in that part of the territory shall be treated as if her husband had paid contributions under the legislation of that part of the territory for any period during which he was resident in Australia between the ages of sixteen years and sixty-five years.\n(2) Where a widow who is permanently resident in any part of the territory of the United Kingdom was receiving a pension payable to widows under the legislation of Australia, otherwise than by virtue of this Agreement or the former Agreement, at the time when she was last in Australia, and is not qualified by virtue of paragraph (1) to receive widow’s allowance, widowed mother’s allowance or widow’s pension at the full standard rate under the legislation of that part of the territory of the United Kingdom where she is permanently resident, she shall be qualified under that legislation to receive at the full standard rate:\n(a) widow’s allowance if she had been receiving a pension payable to widows under the legislation of Australia for less than one year in the case of Jersey and 26 weeks in the case of Guernsey; or\n(b) widowed mother’s allowance if she is not qualified to receive widow’s allowance or if she has ceased to be qualified to receive widow’s allowance, and if she has a child in her family or if she has residing with her a person under the age of nineteen years or sixteen years in the case of Jersey or eighteen years in the case of Guernsey, and the pension payable to widows which she was receiving at the time when she was last in Australia was being paid to her on the basis that that child or person was her dependent child; or\n(c) widow’s pension or retirement pension, as the case may require, if she is not qualified to receive widow’s allowance, or widowed mother’s allowance but had reached the age of fifty-five years or forty years where that widow is permanently resident in Jersey or Guernsey, either before she last left Australia or when she ceased to be qualified to receive widow’s allowance or widowed mother’s allowance.\n(3) Any pension which is awarded by virtue of this Article shall continue to be payable if the pensioner ceases to be permanently resident in one part of the territory of the United Kingdom and becomes permanently resident in another part of the territory of the United Kingdom, and the competent authority of the latter part of the territory of the United Kingdom shall not determine entitlement under this Article.\n(4) Any widow’s benefit which is awarded by virtue of this Article shall cease to be payable if the widow ceases to be permanently resident in the territory of the United Kingdom.\n(5) Where a person is entitled to receive a benefit by virtue of the provisions of this Article, the rate of benefit which she would otherwise be entitled to receive, but for this paragraph, shall be reduced by the amount of benefit which is payable by virtue of the legislation of Australia in accordance with the provisions of Article 8(7).\n(6) The provisions contained in this Article shall apply, in an equal and opposite way to widowed father’s allowance under the legislation of Jersey.\n(7) In the case of widows’ benefits payable under the legislation of Jersey, contribution credits shall only be awarded to widows permanently resident in Jersey.\n(8) In the case of widow’s benefit payable under the legislation of Guernsey:\n(a) Class 3 contributions shall be credited only to a widow who is permanently resident in Guernsey;\n(b) where Class 3 contributions have not been credited to a widow under the provisions of sub-paragraph (a) above and the rate of old age pension which would be payable is less than the rate of widow’s benefit payable immediately before pension age is attained the rate of old age pension shall be adjusted so that it is equal to the rate of widow’s benefit which was payable, or which would be payable, if widow’s benefit were payable beyond pension age.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Order revoked with savings (1.3.2001) by The Social Security (Australia) Order 2000 (S.I. 2000/3255), arts. 1, 3 (with art. 2); and continued (with power to modify) (retrospectively) by Pensions Act 2004 (c. 35), ss. 299, 322(2)(c)(iv)"
    }
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  "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."
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