{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-graduated-retirement-benefit-regulations-2005/schedule-1/paragraph-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-graduated-retirement-benefit-regulations-2005/schedule-1/paragraph-18.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/454",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Graduated Retirement Benefit) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-graduated-retirement-benefit-regulations-2005",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/18",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Increase where person's deceased spouse or civil partner has deferred entitlement to graduated retirement benefit",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies where a widow, widower or surviving civil partner is entitled to graduated retirement benefit, was married to or in a civil partnership with the other party to the marriage or civil partnership when S died and one of the following conditions is met—\n(a) S was entitled to graduated retirement benefit with an increase under this Schedule;\n(b) W is a widow or widower to whom paragraph 17 applies and has made an election under paragraph 17(2)(a); or\n(c) paragraph 17 would apply to W but for the fact that the condition in sub-paragraph (1)(d) of that paragraph is not met.\n(2) The increase in the weekly rate of W's graduated retirement benefit shall, in a case to which sub-paragraph (1) applies, be determined in accordance with section 37 of the 1965 Act as continued in force by virtue of regulations made under Schedule 3 to the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1975 or under Schedule 3 to the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 18(1) substituted (5.12.2005) by Social Security (Retirement Pensions and Graduated Retirement Benefit) (Widowers and Civil Partnership) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/3078), regs. 1(1)(c), 3(7)(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 18(1) inserted (5.12.2005) by Social Security (Retirement Pensions and Graduated Retirement Benefit) (Widowers and Civil Partnership) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/3078), regs. 1(1)(c), 3(7)(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 18(1) inserted (5.12.2005) by Social Security (Retirement Pensions and Graduated Retirement Benefit) (Widowers and Civil Partnership) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/3078), regs. 1(1)(c), 3(7)(b)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 18 inserted (5.12.2005) by Social Security (Retirement Pensions and Graduated Retirement Benefit) (Widowers and Civil Partnership) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/3078), regs. 1(1)(c), 3(7)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1975 c. 18."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1992 c. 6."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/454/schedule/1/paragraph/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:08:31.708340+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."
}