Regulation 3 Widowed Mother’s Allowance in respect of deaths before 11th April 1988

Where a widowed mother’s allowance is payable to a woman by virtue of regulation 16(1) of the principal Regulations for a period which includes the whole or part of the week preceding 10th April 1988, or would have been so payable but for any of the provisions of the 1975 Act mentioned in paragraph (2) below, regulation 16(1) shall apply to her as though regulation 2(6) above had not been made.

The provisions of the 1975 Act mentioned in paragraph (1) above are the proviso to section 25(3) (benefit not payable where a widow and a man to whom she is not married live together as husband and wife), section 82(5)(b) (benefit not payable while person is imprisoned) and section 85 (overlapping benefits).