Regulation 3 Widow's Pension
Subject to paragraph (2) below, where
a widow's pension is payable to a woman for a period which includes the whole or part of the week ending 10th April 1988, or would have been so payable but for any of the following provisions of the 1975 Act, that is to say, the proviso to section 26(3) (widow's pension not payable after remarriage), section 82(5)(b) (benefit not payable while person is imprisoned) or section 85 (overlapping benefits) or the regulations made thereunder; and
the woman was under the age of 55 either at her husband's death or at the time she ceased to be entitled to a widowed mother's allowance,
section 26 of the 1975 Act shall apply to her as though section 36(3) of the 1986 Act had not been enacted.
Where on or after 11th April 1988 widow's pension ceases to be payable to a woman mentioned in paragraph (1) above because entitlement to a widowed mother's allowance arises in her case, that paragraph shall not thereafter apply to her.