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The Social Security (Widow’s Benefit and Retirement Pensions) (Amendment) Regulations 1992

S.I. 1992/1695 · Made 14 July 1992

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SOCIAL SECURITY

Made 14th July 1992

Laid before Parliament 15th July 1992

Coming into force 5th August 1992

The Secretary of State for Social Security, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 55(1) and 175(1) and (3) of, and paragraph 2(2) of Schedule 5 to, the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992f1 and all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee that the proposals to make these Regulations need not be referred to itf2, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1992. c.4.

f2

See section 173(1)(b) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c. 5).

Contents

  1. 1Citation and Commencement
  2. 2Amendment of regulation 4 of the Social Security (Widow’s Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Regulations 1979
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and Commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Widow’s Benefit and Retirement Pensions) (Amendment) Regulations 1992 and shall come into force on 5th August 1992.

2Amendment of regulation 4 of the Social Security (Widow’s Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Regulations 1979

In regulation 4 of the Social Security (Widow’s Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Regulations 1979f1, in paragraph (1)(b)(ii), for the words “injury benefit or an unemployability supplement” there shall be substituted the words “injury benefit, graduated retirement benefit or an unemployability supplement”.

Signature

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.

Ann Widdecombe

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department of Social Security

14th July 1992

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Social Security (Widow’s Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Regulations 1979 (S.I. 1979/642) by providing for a day not to be treated as a day of increment for the purposes of determining increases to a retirement pension if it is a day in respect of which a person receives graduated retirement benefit.