Section 37 Widowed mother’s allowance: deaths before 9 April 2001.F9

the woman is entitled to child benefit in respect of a child F2or qualifying young person falling within subsection (2) below;

the woman is pregnant by her late husband; or

if the woman and her late husband were residing together immediately before the time of his death, the woman is pregnant as the result of being artificially inseminated before that time with the semen of some person other than her husband, or as the result of the placing in her before that time of an embryo, of an egg in the process of fertilisation, or of sperm and eggs.

a son or daughter of the woman and her late husband;

a child F6or qualifying young person in respect of whom her late husband was immediately before his death entitled to child benefit; or

if the woman and her late husband were residing together immediately before his death, a child or qualifying young person in respect of whom she was then entitled to child benefit.

for any period falling before the day on which the widow’s entitlement is to be regarded as commencing for that purpose by virtue of section 5(1)(l) of the Administration Act; F8or

for any period during which she, and a person who is neither her spouse nor her civil partner, are living together as if spouses of each other.