{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-widows-benefit-and-retirement-pensions-regulations-1979/regulation-8A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-widows-benefit-and-retirement-pensions-regulations-1979/regulation-8A.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/8A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8A",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies to a person—\n(a) whose marriage or civil partnership terminated otherwise than by the death of that person’s spouse or civil partner;\n(b) whose marriage or civil partnership terminated after—\n(i) that person; and\n(ii) that person’s former spouse or former civil partner,\nattained pensionable age;\n(c) who attained pensionable age on or after 6th April 2010;\n(d) whose former spouse or former civil partner attained pensionable age on or after 6th April 2010; and\n(e) whose former spouse or former civil partner—\n(i) satisfied the contribution condition specified in paragraph 5A(2) of Schedule 3 (contribution conditions for entitlement to benefit) to the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (“the 1992 Act”); or\n(ii) would have satisfied the contribution condition specified in paragraph 5A(2) of Schedule 3 to the 1992 Act in respect of contributions paid before 6th April 2016 had Part 1 of the Pensions Act 2014 not been applicable.\n(2) Where a person to whom this regulation applies does not satisfy the contribution condition specified in paragraph 5A(2) of Schedule 3 to the 1992 Act, that person shall be treated as having satisfied that condition by virtue of the contributions of the former spouse or civil partner.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 8A inserted (6.4.2010) by The Social Security (State Pension and National Insurance Credits) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2206), regs. 1(3), 14"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 8A(1)(e) substituted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2)(b) of the amending S.I.) by The Pensions Act 2014 (Consequential, Supplementary and Incidental Amendments) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/1985), arts. 1(2)(b), 5(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1979/642/regulation/8A",
    "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."
}