{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-widows-benefit-retirement-pensions-and-other-benefits-transitional-regulations-1979/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-widows-benefit-retirement-pensions-and-other-benefits-transitional-regulations-1979/regulation-9.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/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Modifications in respect of claims and questions relating to persons who attained pensionable age before 6th April 1975 but who retire thereafter",
  "text": "Where a person who, having attained pensionable age before 6th April 1975, retires on or after that date or, having made an election before that date under section 35 of the former principal Act, retires on or after that date—\n(a) any question under the former principal Act relating to that person's entitlement to a retirement pension determined in advance of a claim before 6th April 1975 shall be treated, for the purpose of facilitating the determination of a subsequent claim to a Category A or a Category B retirement pension, as a question determined under the Act in relation to that person's entitlement to such a pension; and\n(b) subject to regulation 4, any claim for, or question relating to, that person's entitlement to a retirement pension that has not been determined before 6th April 1975 shall be for determination as a claim for, or a question under the Act relating to that person's entitlement to, a Category A or, as the case may be, a Category B retirement pension.",
  "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/9",
    "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."
}