Explanatory note

These Regulations contain miscellaneous amendments to regulations made, or having effect as made, under the Social Security Act 1975.

Part II of the Regulations makes minor and drafting amendments. It also amends the Social Security (Widow's Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Regulations 1974 so that in certain circumstances a widow shall be treated as entitled to a widow's pension for the purposes of entitlement to a Category B retirement pension.

Part III of these Regulations contains minor and drafting amendments to the Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Benefit) Regulations 1975 and omits the references to relatives by adoption in regulations 18 and 25(1) of those regulations, such relatives being included by virtue of the Children Act 1975 (1975 c. 72).

The Report of the National Insurance Advisory Committee dated 2nd September 1976 on Parts I and II of the draft of the regulations which were referred to them is contained in House of Commons Paper No. 667 (Session 1975-6) published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office.