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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-widows-benefit-and-retirement-pensions-regulations-1979/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-widows-benefit-and-retirement-pensions-regulations-1979/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1979/642",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Widow's Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Regulations 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-widows-benefit-and-retirement-pensions-regulations-1979",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "These Regulations are made for the purpose only of consolidating the Regulations they revoke and, accordingly, no reference of them has been made to the National Insurance Advisory Committee.\nThese Regulations contain provisions relating to widow's benefits, retirement pensions and age addition under the Social Security Act 1975 and the Social Security Pensions Act 1975.\nThese Regulations relate to: elections to be treated as not having retired (regulations 2 and 3); days to be treated as days of increment when retirement has been deferred (regulation 4); modification of certain provisions of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 concerning deferred retirement (regulation 5); entitlement to benefit at reduced rates where contribution conditions are not fully satisfied (regulation 6); circumstances in which a widow shall be treated as entitled to a widow's pension for purposes of entitlement to a Category B retirement pension ( regulation 7); substitution in certain cases of the contribution record of a former spouse to give title to a Category A retirement pension (regulation 8); conditions for entitlement to Category C and Category D retirement pensions (regulations 9 and 10); benefits for wives and widows of men over pensionable age on 5th July 1948 (regulations 11 to 15); provision in relation to entitlement to child benefit for the purposes of a widowed mother's allowance (regulation 16); and age addition for persons not in receipt of a retirement pension ( regulation 17).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1979/642/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:17:47.485245+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."
}