Regulation 4 Prescribed circumstances for purposes of section 31(b)(ii) of the Social Security Act 1975F1

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.