{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-widows-benefit-retirement-pensions-and-other-benefits-transitional-regulations-1979/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-widows-benefit-retirement-pensions-and-other-benefits-transitional-regulations-1979/regulation-17.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/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Alternative benefit rights in place of widow's basic pension",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulation 2(2) where, immediately before 6th April 1975, a pre-1975 beneficiary was entitled to a widow's basic pension under the former principal Act, she shall be entitled, as from that date and until she either attains pensionable age and is entitled to a Category A or Category B retirement pension, to a widow's pension under the Act as through she had been 40 years of age at her husband's death.\n(2) A person entitled to a widow's pension by virtue of this regulation shall be treated as having not been so entitled immediately before attaining pensionable age for the purposes of any regulations under the Act disqualifying a widow, not ordinarily resident in Great Britain, for receiving a retirement pension at a rate higher than the rate of widow's pension to which she was entitled immediately before attaining pensionable age.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17(1) substituted (1.10.1989) by The Social Security (Abolition of Earnings Rule) (Consequential) Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/1642), regs. 1, 12(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1979/643/regulation/17",
    "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."
}