Regulation 2 Provisions as to maintenance for the purposes of increase of benefit in respect of dependants

when F1... incapable of work, or, as the case may be, F2entitled to a Category A or Category B retirement pension, contributes towards the maintenance of that person an amount not less than the amount of increase of benefit received in respect of that person; and

when in employment, or not incapable of work, or, as the case may be, not so F3entitled (except in a case where the dependency did not arise until after that time) contributed more than half of the actual cost of maintenance of that person.

a person is partly maintained by each of 2 or more other persons each of whom could be entitled to an increase of benefit under the Act in respect of that person if he were wholly or mainly maintaining that person, and

the contributions made by those other persons towards the maintenance of that person amount in the aggregate to sums which, if they were contributed by one of them, would be sufficient to satisfy the foregoing requirements of this regulation,

makes the larger or largest contributions to the maintenance of that person, or

in a case where no person makes the larger or largest contributions as aforesaid, is the elder or eldest of the said other persons, or

in any case, is a person designated in that behalf by a notice in writing signed by a majority of the said other persons and addressed to the Secretary of State,