{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-widows-and-widowers-invalidity-pensions-regulations-1978/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-widows-and-widowers-invalidity-pensions-regulations-1978/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1978/529",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Widow's and Widower's Invalidity Pensions) Regulations 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-widows-and-widowers-invalidity-pensions-regulations-1978",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Prescribed Periods for the Purposes of Section 41 of the Contributions and Benefits Act.",
  "text": "The prescribed period for the purposes of section 41(1)(b), (2)(a) and (3)(a) of the Contributions and Benefits Act shall be 13 weeks (“week” for this purpose meaning any period of 7 days) beginning with the day following the day on which the wife died.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 substituted (13.4.1995) by The Social Security (Incapacity Benefit) (Consequential and Transitional Amendments and Savings) Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/829), regs. 1(1), 9(5) (with Pt. III)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1978/529/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:36:51.071021+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."
}