{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefit-persons-abroad-amendment-regulations-1988/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefit-persons-abroad-amendment-regulations-1988/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/435",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Benefit (Persons Abroad) Amendment Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefit-persons-abroad-amendment-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Modification of the Social Security Act 1975 in relation to widow’s payment",
  "text": "After paragraph (2) of regulation 4 of the principal regulations there shall be inserted the following paragraph:\n“(2A) In the case of a widow’s payment, paragraph (1) above shall apply only where—\n(a) the woman or her late husband was in Great Britain at the time of his death; or\n(b) Sub-paragraph (a) above does not apply but the woman returned to Great Britain within 4 weeks of her husband’s death; or\n(c) the contribution conditions for widowed mother’s allowance and widow’s pension set out in paragraph 5 of Schedule 3 to the Act or in regulation 6 of the Social Security (Widow’s Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Regulations 1979 are satisfied in relation to the woman.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1979/642."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/435/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:10:18.047991+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."
}