{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-general-benefit-regulations-1982/regulation-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-general-benefit-regulations-1982/regulation-24.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1982/1408",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (General Benefit) Regulations 1982",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-general-benefit-regulations-1982",
  "path": "regulation/24",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Additional entitlement to higher permanent rate of widow's pension under section 67",
  "text": "(1) The following provisions of this regulation shall apply in determining whether a woman is entitled to industrial death benefit at the higher permanent rate specified in paragraph 13(b) of Part V of Schedule 4 to the Act by virtue of satisfying the requirement in section 68(2)(a) (higher weekly rate of industrial death benefit payable to the widow of the deceased for a period for which she is entitled or treated as entitled to an allowance under section 70 (industrial death benefit for children)).\n(2) The widow of the deceased shall be treated as entitled to an allowance under the said section 70 for any period during which she is residing with a person under the age of 19 in respect of whom the deceased—\n(a) at his death was entitled to child benefit; or\n(b) at the time of his death could have been entitled to child benefit or treated as having been so entitled had that person then been under the age of 16 or not absent from Great Britain; and,\nwhere, at the expiration of such a period as aforesaid, the widow has attained the age of forty, she shall be treated as entitled to that allowance for any period thereafter.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1982/1408/regulation/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:13:46.544892+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."
}