The Social Security (Widow’s Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Amendment Regulations 1987

Amendment of Regulations

2.—(1) The principal Regulations shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) In regulation 5(1) for the words “section 124 of the Act” there shall be substituted the words “section 63 of the Social Security Act 1986”(1).

(3) In regulation 7(b) the words “a widow’s allowance or” shall be omitted.

(4) In regulation 11—

(a) in paragraph (1)(c) for the reference to “40” there shall be substituted a reference to “45”;

(b) in paragraph (3)(a) for the reference to “50” there shall be substituted a reference to “55”.

(5) In regulation 13—

(a) in paragraph (1)(a) for the reference to “40” there shall be substituted a reference to “45”;

(b) in paragraph (3) for the reference to “50” there shall be substituted a reference to “55”.

(6) In regulation 16 for sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (1) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—

“(a) any person under the age of 19 residing with the widow shall be deemed to be a child falling within section 25(2) of the Act if—

(i) the requirements of section 25(2)(a) are satisfied in his case and child benefit would have been payable in respect of him had he not been absent from Great Britain and had a claim for it been made in the manner prescribed under section 6 of the Child Benefit Act 1975(2), or

(ii) the requirements of section 25(2)(b) or (c) would have been satisfied, and child benefit would have been payable in respect of him continuously since the date of death of the late husband, had he not been absent from Great Britain and had a claim for child benefit been made in respect of him in the manner prescribed under section 6 of the Child Benefit Act 1975; and”.

(1)

1986 c. 50.

(2)

1975 c. 61.