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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefit-persons-abroad-regulations-northern-ireland-1978/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1978/114",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Benefit (Persons Abroad) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1978",
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  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Modification of the Act in relation to widow's benefit, child's special allowance, guardian's allowance and retirement pension",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of this regulation and of regulation 5 below, a person shall not be disqualified for receiving widow's benefit, a child's special allowance, a guardian's allowance or a retirement pension of any category by reason of being absent from Northern Ireland.\n(2) In the case of a widow's allowance paragraph (1) above shall apply only where either—\n(a) the woman or her late husband was in Northern Ireland at the time of his death; or\n(b) 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 9 of the Special Provisions Regulations are satisfied in relation to the woman.",
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  "version": "current",
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    {
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    },
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