# The Social Security (Widow’s Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Amendment Regulations 1995, Regulation 2: Amendment of regulation 1 of the principal Regulations


In regulation 1 of the principal Regulations after paragraph (3) there shall be inserted the following paragraph:
“(3A) For the purposes of regulation 8 of these Regulations, where, before the coming into force of the Nullity of Marriages Act 1971 a decree of nullity was granted in relation to a person on the ground that the marriage was voidable, that person shall be treated as a person whose marriage has been terminated by divorce from the date on which that decree was made absolute.”

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/74/regulation/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-widows-benefit-and-retirement-pensions-amendment-regulations-1995/regulation-2
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