{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-widows-benefit-and-retirement-pensions-regulations-1979/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-widows-benefit-and-retirement-pensions-regulations-1979/regulation-12.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": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Category C retirement pension for certain women whose marriage has been terminated otherwise than by death",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of these regulations, a woman whose marriage to a husband who was over pensionable age on 5th July 1948 was terminated otherwise than by his death shall be entitled to a Category C retirement pension at the higher rate specified in relation to such a pension in Part III of Schedule 4 to the Act if—\n(a) she had attained pensionable age before the date of the termination of the marriage; and\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) the conditions set out in paragraph (2) or (3), as the case may be, are satisfied.\n(2) The conditions applicable in the case of a woman whose marriage was terminated before 2nd November 1970 shall be—\n(a) that she was resident in Great Britain for a period of at least 10 years between 5th July 1948 and 1st November 1970, inclusive of both dates; and\n(b) that she was ordinarily resident in Great Britain on 2nd November 1970 or on the date of her claim for a Category C retirement pension; and\n(c) that her husband was ordinarily resident in Great Britain on the date of the termination of the marriage; and\n(d) that she did not remarry between the date of that termination and 2nd November 1970.\n(3) The condition applicable in the case of a woman whose marriage was terminated on or after 2nd November 1970 shall be that her husband was entitled to a Category C retirement pension or a retirement pension under section 1(1)(a) of the National Insurance Act 1970.\n(4) A pension payable under paragraph (1) shall commence on 6th April 1975 or the date on which the requirements of sub-paragraphs (a) to (c) of that paragraph are satisfied in relation to the beneficiary, whichever is the later, and shall be payable for life. ...",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 12(1)(b) omitted (1.10.1989) by virtue of The Social Security (Abolition of Earnings Rule) (Consequential) Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/1642), regs. 1, 11(8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 12(4) omitted (1.10.1989) by virtue of The Social Security (Abolition of Earnings Rule) (Consequential) Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/1642), regs. 1, 11(8)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1979/642/regulation/12",
    "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."
}