{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-widows-benefit-and-retirement-pensions-regulations-1979/regulation-16ZA",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-widows-benefit-and-retirement-pensions-regulations-1979/regulation-16ZA.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/16ZA",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16ZA",
  "heading": "Provision in relation to entitlement to child benefit for the purposes of a widowed parent’s allowance",
  "text": "(1) For the purpose only of determining whether a man or a woman who has been widowed (“the surviving spouse”) or whose civil partner has died (“surviving civil partner”) satisfies the requirements of subsection (2)(a) of section 39A of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (“the 1992 Act”)—\n(a) a person shall be treated for the purposes of subsection (3) (b) or (c) of that section as having been entitled to child benefit in respect of a child or qualifying young person where that person would have been so entitled had—\n(i) that child or qualifying young person not been absent from Great Britain, and\n(ii) a claim for child benefit been made in respect of the child or qualifying young person in the manner prescribed under section 13 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992; and\n(b) the surviving spouse or surviving civil partner shall be treated, for the purposes of subsection (2)(a) of section 39A, as entitled to child benefit in respect of the child or qualifying young person who, by virtue of sub-paragraph (a) above, falls within subsection (3) of that section.\n(2) In determining whether a surviving spouse or surviving civil partner who has been more than once married , has formed more than one civil partnership, or who has been both married and formed a civil partnership and who was not residing with the deceased spouse or, as the case may be, the deceased civil partner immediately before his or her death is entitled to a widowed parent’s allowance under section 39A of the 1992 Act, the deceased spouse or deceased civil partner shall, for the purposes of subsection (3)(b) of that section, be treated as having been entitled to child benefit in respect of any child or qualifying young person in respect of whom—\n(a) a previous spouse or civil partner of that surviving spouse or civil partner by a marriage or, as the case may be, by the formation of a civil partnership which ended with that previous spouse’s or previous civil partner's death was, immediately before his or her death, entitled or treated as entitled to child benefit; and\n(b) that surviving spouse or civil partner was entitled or treated as entitled to child benefit immediately before the death of the deceased spouse or civil partner.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 16ZA inserted (9.4.2001) by The Social Security (Widows Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Amendment Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/1235), regs. 1(1), 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 16ZA(1) inserted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Pensions, Social Security and Child Support) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2877), art. 1, Sch. 3 para. 10(4)(a)(i) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 16ZA(1) inserted (10.4.2006) by The Social Security (Provisions relating to Qualifying Young Persons) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/692), regs. 1, 3(3)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 16ZA(1) inserted (10.4.2006) by The Social Security (Provisions relating to Qualifying Young Persons) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/692), regs. 1, 3(3)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 16ZA(1) inserted (10.4.2006) by The Social Security (Provisions relating to Qualifying Young Persons) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/692), regs. 1, 3(3)(a)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 16ZA(1)(b) inserted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Pensions, Social Security and Child Support) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2877), art. 1, Sch. 3 para. 10(4)(a)(ii) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 16ZA(2) inserted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Pensions, Social Security and Child Support) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2877), art. 1, Sch. 3 para. 10(4)(b)(i) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in reg. 16ZA(2) inserted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Pensions, Social Security and Child Support) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2877), art. 1, Sch. 3 para. 10(4)(b)(ii) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in reg. 16ZA(2) inserted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Pensions, Social Security and Child Support) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2877), art. 1, Sch. 3 para. 10(4)(b)(iii) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in reg. 16ZA(2) inserted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Pensions, Social Security and Child Support) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2877), art. 1, Sch. 3 para. 10(4)(b)(iv) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in reg. 16ZA(2) inserted (10.4.2006) by The Social Security (Provisions relating to Qualifying Young Persons) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/692), regs. 1, 3(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Words in reg. 16ZA(2)(a) inserted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Pensions, Social Security and Child Support) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2877), art. 1, Sch. 3 para. 10(4)(b)(v)(aa) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Words in reg. 16ZA(2)(a) inserted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Pensions, Social Security and Child Support) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2877), art. 1, Sch. 3 para. 10(4)(b)(v)(bb) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "Words in reg. 16ZA(2)(a) inserted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Pensions, Social Security and Child Support) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2877), art. 1, Sch. 3 para. 10(4)(b)(v)(cc) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F15",
      "text": "Words in reg. 16ZA(2)(b) inserted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Pensions, Social Security and Child Support) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2877), art. 1, Sch. 3 para. 10(4)(b)(vi) (with art. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1979/642/regulation/16ZA",
    "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."
}