# The Social Security (Widow's Benefit, Retirement Pensions and Other Benefits) (Transitional) Regulations 1979, Regulation 19: Provision relating to widow's pension for certain widows incapable of self-support by reason of an infirmity


(1) Where before 7th January 1957 a widow ceased to be entitled to a widow's benefit under the former principal Act and when she so ceased she was incapable of self-support by reason of an infirmity, she shall for any subsequent period during which she is under the age of 65 and is incapable of self-support by reason of that infirmity have the same right (if any) to a widow's pension in respect of the marriage in respect of which she was entitled to the widow's benefit as if she was over the age of 50 when her husband died.
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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1979/643/regulation/19 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-widows-benefit-retirement-pensions-and-other-benefits-transitional-regulations-1979/regulation-19
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