{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-graduated-retirement-benefit-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/schedule-1/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-graduated-retirement-benefit-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/schedule-1/paragraph-8.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2005/121",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Graduated Retirement Benefit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-graduated-retirement-benefit-regulations-northern-ireland-2005",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Increase where pensioner’s deceased spouse or deceased civil partner has deferred entitlement",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies where a widow, widower or surviving civil partner is entitled to a Category A or Category B retirement pension, 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) paragraph 7(2)(a) applies; or\n(c) paragraph 7 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 36 of the 1966 Act as continued in force by regulation 2 of the Social Security (Graduated Retirement Benefit) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1978.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 8(1) substituted (5.12.2005) by The Social Security (Retirement Pensions and Graduated Retirement Benefit) (Widowers and Civil Partnership) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 (S.R. 2005/541), regs. 1(c), 4(3)(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 8(1) inserted (5.12.2005) by The Social Security (Retirement Pensions and Graduated Retirement Benefit) (Widowers and Civil Partnership) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 (S.R. 2005/541), regs. 1(c), 4(3)(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 8(1) inserted (5.12.2005) by The Social Security (Retirement Pensions and Graduated Retirement Benefit) (Widowers and Civil Partnership) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 (S.R. 2005/541), regs. 1(c), 4(3)(b)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 8 heading inserted (5.12.2005) by The Social Security (Retirement Pensions and Graduated Retirement Benefit) (Widowers and Civil Partnership) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 (S.R. 2005/541), regs. 1(c), 4(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 8 in operation at 6.4.2005, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/121/schedule/1/paragraph/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:53:32.188904+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."
}