Continuation in force of sections 36, 37 and 118(1) of the 1965 Act3.
(1)
The provisions of this regulation shall have effect for the purpose of securing continuity between the Act and the 1965 Act in the case of persons who had, immediately before 6th April 1975, rights or prospective rights to or expectations of graduated retirement benefit under sections 36 and 37 of the 1965 Act, by preserving those rights and temporarily retaining the effect of those sections for transitional purposes.
(2)
Paragraph (3) below shall have effect so that notwithstanding their repeal by the Social Security Act 1973 those sections shall, for the purpose aforesaid, continue in force subject to the making in them of the modifications required—
(a)
to bring them into conformity with the provisions of the Act and the Pensions Act and to enable them to have effect as if contained in the scheme of social security benefits established by those Acts;
(b)
to replace section 36(4) of the 1965 Act (increase of graduated retirement benefit in cases of deferred retirement) with provisions corresponding to those of paragraphs 1 to 3 of Schedule 1 to the Pensions Act; F1...
(c)
(d)
to extend section 37 of the 1965 Act (increase of women’s retirement pension by reference to her late husband’s graduated retirement benefit) to civil partners and surviving civil partners;F4and
(e)
to extend section 37 of the 1965 Act to men and their late husbands, and women and their late wives.