# The Social Security (Widow's Benefit, Retirement Pensions and Other Benefits) (Transitional) Regulations 1979, Regulation 13: Provision relating to treatment of reckonable years


(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.
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1979/643/regulation/13 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-widows-benefit-retirement-pensions-and-other-benefits-transitional-regulations-1979/regulation-13
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