{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefit-transitional-regulations-1979/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefit-transitional-regulations-1979/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1979/345",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Benefit) (Transitional) Regulations 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefit-transitional-regulations-1979",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendments of regulation 12 of the principal regulations",
  "text": "(1) Regulation 12 of the principal regulations (modifications relating to increases of retirement pension) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.\n(2) For the words “pre-appointed day” and “post-appointed day” wherever they appear, there shall be substituted “pre-1975” and “post-1975” respectively.\n(3) For paragraph (1) there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—\n“(1) In this regulation and in regulations 12A and 12B—\n`a pre-1975 increment' means an increase of retirement pension under section 31(1) or 34(1) of the former principal Act; `a post-1975 increment' means an increase of a Category A or B retirement pension which accrued under section 28(4), 28(5) or 29(10) of the Act between 6th April 1975 and 5th April 1979 (both dates inclusive); and the pre-1975 beneficiaries to whom these regulations relate are those who, immediately before 6th April 1975, were, or but for any disqualification or forfeiture would be, entitled to, or who have prospective rights to, or expectation of, a pre-1975 increment. ”\n(4) In paragraph (2) for the words following “right or expectation” there shall be substituted “together with increases (if any) of the said amount calculated in accordance with the provisions of section 124 of the Act and section 23(3) of the Pensions Act”.\n(5) For paragraph (4) there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—\n“(4) Where a pre-1975 beneficiary to whom this regulation relates has, immediately before 6th April 1979, entitlement to, or a prospective right to, at least one pre-1975 increment, paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the Pensions Act shall apply to his case as if—\n(a) the words “but only if that amount is enough to increase the rate of the pension by at least 1 per cent” were omitted from that paragraph, and\n(b) any contribution as an employed or self-employed person paid by him under the former principal Act in respect of any period after he attained pensionable age and not taken into account for a pre-1975 or a post-1975 increment, shall be treated as an incremental period for the purposes of Schedule 1 to the Pensions Act”.\n(6) Paragraph (5) is revoked.\n(7) In paragraph (6) the words “on or after the appointed day but” shall be deleted and for the words “any regulations made under section 24(4)(b) of the Act providing for days to be treated as days of increment under that section” there shall be substituted the words “regulation 4 of the Social Security (Widow's Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Regulations 1974 .”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1978/392."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1979/345/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:20:16.410007+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."
}