{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-widows-benefit-and-retirement-pensions-regulations-1979/regulation-3A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-widows-benefit-and-retirement-pensions-regulations-1979/regulation-3A.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/3A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3A",
  "heading": "Calculating periods of incapacity for work for welfare to work beneficiaries entitled to an increase of long-term incapacity benefit",
  "text": "Section 47(1) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (increase of Category A retirement pension for long-term incapacity) shall have effect, in any case where a person is treated in accordance with regulation 13A of the Social Security (Incapacity for Work) (General) Regulations 1995 as a welfare to work beneficiary, as if for the reference to 8 weeks there were substituted a reference to 104 weeks.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 3A inserted (5.10.1998) by The Social Security (Welfare to Work) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/2231), regs. 1, 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3A substituted (9.10.2006) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/2378), regs. 1(7), 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1979/642/regulation/3A",
    "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."
}