The Social Security Benefit (Persons Abroad) Regulations 1975

[F1Rate of guaranteed minimum pension for the purposes of section 29 of the Pensions Act

5A.  Where a person is absent from Great Britain and disqualified for receiving additional Category A or Category B retirement pension, additional widowed mother’s allowance [F2, bereavement allowance, widowed parent’s allowance] or additional widow’s pension then—

(a)the rate of guaranteed minimum pension shall for the purposes only of section 29(1) of the Pensions Act be determined in his case as if any Order under section 37A of the Pensions Act which came into force while he was disqualified had instead come into force on the first day on which he ceased to be disqualified, and

(b)so long as the person is disqualified, section 37A(7) shall apply to him as if the reference to section 29(1) were omitted.]

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