{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-widows-benefit-retirement-pensions-and-other-benefits-transitional-regulations-1979/regulation-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-widows-benefit-retirement-pensions-and-other-benefits-transitional-regulations-1979/regulation-13.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1979/643",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Widow's Benefit, Retirement Pensions and Other Benefits) (Transitional) Regulations 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-widows-benefit-retirement-pensions-and-other-benefits-transitional-regulations-1979",
  "path": "regulation/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Provision relating to treatment of reckonable years",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of paragraph 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.\n(2) 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 to the 1992 Act or paragraph (b) of the contribution condition specified in paragraph 5A(2) of that Schedule.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 13(1) substituted (6.4.2010) by The Social Security (State Pension and National Insurance Credits) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2206), regs. 1(3), 22(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 13(2) substituted (6.4.2010) by The Social Security (State Pension and National Insurance Credits) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2206), regs. 1(3), 22(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1979/643/regulation/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:17:46.274471+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."
}