Regulation 17 Alternative benefit rights in place of widow's basic pension

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 F1is 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.

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.