Part IIAdjudication

Reviews - general

25Reviews under s. 23 - supplementary

1

Regulations—

a

may prescribe what are, or are not, relevant changes of circumstances for the purposes of section 23 above; and

b

may make provision restricting the payment of any benefit, or any increase of benefit, to which a person would, but for this subsection, be entitled by reason of a review in respect of any period before or after the review (whether that period falls wholly or partly before or after the making of the regulations).

2

Regulations under subsection (1)(b) above shall not restrict the payment to or for a woman of so much of—

a

any widow’s benefit, any invalidity pension under section 40 of the Contributions and Benefits Act or any Category A or Category B retirement pension; or

b

any increase of such a benefit or pension,

as falls to be paid by reason of a review which takes place by virtue of section 23(1)(a) or (b) above in consequence of a claim for a widowhood benefit, within the meaning of section 3 above, which is made or treated as made by virtue of that section.