{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-widows-benefit-retirement-pensions-and-other-benefits-transitional-regulations-1979/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-widows-benefit-retirement-pensions-and-other-benefits-transitional-regulations-1979/regulation-6.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/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Modifications relating to the first contribution condition for widowed mother's allowance, widow's pension and Category A and B retirement pension",
  "text": "(1) The first contribution condition for a widowed mother's allowance, a widow's pension or a Category A or Category B retirement pension specified in paragraph 5(2) of Schedule 3 to the Act shall be deemed to be satisfied in any case where the contributor concerned is, or was, a pre-1975 contributor who had paid not less than 50 pre-1975 contributions.\n(2) The said contribution condition for a Category A retirement pension shall be deemed to be satisfied in the case of a woman who attains pensionable age on or after 6th April 1975 if—\n(a) she was a widow who was entitled to a widow's allowance or a widowed mother's allowance under the former principal Act at any time before 6th April 1975 and has not re-married before attaining pensionable age; or\n(b) her marriage was terminated before 6th April 1975 otherwise than by the death of her husband and she has not re-married before attaining pensionable age and her husband had paid not less than 50 pre-1975 contributions before the termination of the marriage.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1979/643/regulation/6",
    "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."
}