# The Social Security (Short-Term Benefits) (Transitional) Regulations 1974, Regulation 13: Modifications and transitional provisions relating to widow's allowance


(1) The contribution condition for a widow's allowance specified in paragraph 4 of Schedule 3 to the 1973 Act shall be deemed to be satisfied where the contributor concerned was a former contributor who has paid not less than 25 contributions under the Widows', Orphans' and Old Age Contributory Pensions Acts 1936 to 1941 since his last entry into insurance under those Acts for purposes which include widows' and orphans' pensions purposes, or 25 contributions of any class under the 1965 Act which he was liable to pay before he attained pensionable age, or an aggregate of 25 such contributions under the said Contributory Pensions Acts and the 1965 Act.
(2) Where a widow's allowance under the 1965 Act is payable to the widow of a former contributor for a period which commenced, but was not completed, before 6th April 1975, she shall be entitled, without any claim being made for it, to a widow's allowance under the 1973 Act for such part of the period specified in section 19(2) of that Act as falls on or after 6th April 1975; so however that where she was entitled to the allowance at a reduced rate her entitlement in respect of that latter part of the period shall be at the reduced rate in column 5 of Schedule 2 to these regulations which corresponds to the number of contributions of the appropriate class paid or credited in the relevant contribution year as shown in column 1 of that Schedule, and section 19(3) of the 1973 Act shall not apply in her case unless widow's supplementary allowance under the 1965 Act was payable to her in respect of the said period before 6th April 1975.
(3) Where section 19(3) of the 1973 Act applies to the widow of a former contributor in respect of a period commencing before the end of the transitional period, it shall apply with the modification that the widow's earnings-related addition shall be calculated in accordance with the provisions for computing the weekly rate of widow's supplementary allowance set out in section 4 of the National Insurance Act 1966 and any regulations made under it which are in force on 5th April 1975.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1974/2192/regulation/13 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-short-term-benefits-transitional-regulations-1974/regulation-13
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