{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-child-benefit-consequential-regulations-1977/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-child-benefit-consequential-regulations-1977/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1977/342",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Child Benefit Consequential) Regulations 1977",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-child-benefit-consequential-regulations-1977",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Social Security (Child's Special Allowance) Regulations 1975",
  "text": "(1) The Social Security (Child's Special Allowance) Regulations 1975, shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.\n(2) In regulation 1 (citation, commencement and interpretation) after paragraph (1) there shall be inserted the following paragraph:—\n“(1A) In these regulations the expression “child benefit” means benefit under Part I of the Child Benefit Act 1975. ”\n(3) After regulation 3 there shall be added the following regulation:—\n“Prescribed circumstances for purposes of section 31(b)(ii) of the Social Security Act 1975\n4 The condition specified in section 31(b)(ii) of the Social Security Act 1975 (woman entitled to child benefit to be entitled to a child's special allowance if her marriage has been terminated by divorce and the husband of that marriage was, in such circumstances as may be prescribed, entitled to child benefit in respect of a child immediately before his death) shall be regarded as satisfied where the child in question is a child of the marriage which was terminated by divorce; and in respect of any such child for whom child benefit would have been payable to the husband but for the fact that the child was not then in Great Britain, the husband shall be treated as having been entitled to child benefit immediately before his death.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1977/342/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:06:53.233156+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."
}