The Social Security Miscellaneous Provisions Regulations 1989

Amendment of the Married Women and Widows' Special Provisions Regulations

2.—(1) The Married Women and Widows' Special Provisions Regulations shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) Subject to regulation 6 of these Regulations, regulation 2 (special credits where a woman’s marriage has been terminated) shall be omitted.

(3) In regulation 3 (modifications, in relation to widows, of provisions with respect to unemployment and sickness benefit, maternity allowance and Category A retirement pension)—

(a) in paragraph (5)(a), the words after “contributions or both” to the end shall be omitted and there shall be substituted the words—

“and the earnings factor derived from—

(i) earnings paid in a year upon which primary Class 1 contributions have been paid or treated as paid in respect of that year, or

(ii) earnings with which she has been credited in respect of that year, or

(iii) Class 2 contributions, is not less than that year’s lower earnings limit multiplied by 25; and”; and

(b) subject to regulation 6 of these Regulations, paragraph 3(10) shall be omitted.

(4) Regulations 3B(1), 5, 8 and 10 shall be omitted.

(1)

Regulation 3B was inserted by S.I. 1980/1168