Regulation 13 Provision relating to treatment of reckonable years

For the purposes of F1paragraph 5(2)(b) and (3)(b) and paragraph 5A(2)(b) of Schedule 3 to the 1992 Act and Schedule 1 to the Social Security (Widow's Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Regulations 1979 any reckonable year or years shall be treated as a qualifying year or years.

In this regulation “qualifying year” means a year in which a person's earnings factor is sufficient for satisfaction of paragraph (b) of the second contribution condition specified in paragraph 5(3) of Schedule 3 F2to the 1992 Act or paragraph (b) of the contribution condition specified in paragraph 5A(2) of that Schedule.