{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-widows-benefit-and-retirement-pensions-amendment-regulations-2001/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-widows-benefit-and-retirement-pensions-amendment-regulations-2001/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/1235",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Widow’s Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Amendment Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-widows-benefit-and-retirement-pensions-amendment-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Widow’s Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Amendment Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 9th April 2001.\n(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Social Security (Widow’s Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Regulations 1979.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1979/642. The relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1987/1854 and S.I. 1997/2676."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1235/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:52:40.431340+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."
}