PART 3AMENDMENTS OF SECONDARY LEGISLATION
CHAPTER 1SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS
Amendment of the Social Security (Benefit) (Married Women and Widows Special Provisions) RegulationsI117
1
The Social Security (Benefit) (Married Women and Widows Special Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 197532 are amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).
2
In regulation 1(2) (interpretation)33—
a
omit the definition of “contributory employment and support allowance”; and
b
after the definition of “the determining authority” insert—
“employment and support allowance” means an allowance under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act as amended by the provisions of Schedule 3, and Part 1 of Schedule 12, to the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 that remove references to an income-related allowance, and a contributory allowance under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act as that Part has effect apart from those provisions;
3
In the title of regulation 3 (modifications, in relation to widows, of provisions with respect to unemployment and short-term incapacity benefit, contributory employment and support allowance, maternity allowance and Category A retirement pension) and in paragraphs (1)(a) and (b) and (5)(a) and (b) of that regulation omit “contributory” in each place it occurs.