{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-widows-benefit-retirement-pensions-and-other-benefits-transitional-regulations-1979/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-widows-benefit-retirement-pensions-and-other-benefits-transitional-regulations-1979/regulation-18.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/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Alternative benefit rights in place of contributory old age pension",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulation 2(2) where, immediately before 6th April 1975, a pre-1975 beneficiary was entitled to a contributory old age pension under the former principal Act, such beneficiary shall, as from that date, be entitled—\n(a) if entitled to a contributory old age pension by virtue of his or her own insurance, to a Category A retirement pension;\n(b) if she is a woman who was entitled to a contributory old age pension by virtue of her husband's insurance, to a Category B retirement pension;\nand, in either case, the rate of retirement pension to which any such person becomes entitled on 6th April 1975 shall, subject to the provisions of regulation 5, be at the same rate as the contributory old age pension to which that person was entitled immediately before that date.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 18(2) omitted (1.10.1989) by virtue of The Social Security (Abolition of Earnings Rule) (Consequential) Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/1642), regs. 1, 12(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1979/643/regulation/18",
    "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."
}