{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-death-grant-regulations-1975/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-death-grant-regulations-1975/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1975/565",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Death Grant) Regulations 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-death-grant-regulations-1975",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Transitional provisions relating to the contribution condition for a death grant",
  "text": "In respect of the death of any person occurring on or after 6th April 1975, where the qualifying contributor is, or was, a person who was insured under the National Insurance Act 1965, the contribution condition for a death grant specified in paragraph 7(1) of Schedule 3 to the Act shall be deemed to be satisfied if such contributor has paid or been credited with not less than 25 contributions of any class under the said Act—\n(a) between his entry into insurance under that Act and 6th April 1975; or\n(b) if he attained pensionable age before that date, between his entry into insurance under the said Act and the date upon which he attained that age;\nso however that any contributions which would have been taken into account for the purposes of a death grant under that Act, had the death occurred immediately before 6th April 1975, shall be taken into account for the purposes of this regulation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1976/533",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Transitional) Amendment Regulations 1976"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1975/565/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:12:02.057489+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."
}