Power to compound certain small benefits11

In regulation 21 of the principal Regulations—

a

in paragraph (1), after the words “payable to any person”, there shall be inserted the words “other than a widow or a dependent child”, and after the words “death gratuity” in both places where they occur there shall be inserted the words “, widow’s pension and child’s allowance”;

b

in paragraph (2), for the words “in relation to”, there shall be substituted the words “where the annual sum is”; and

c

for paragraph (3) there shall be substituted the following—

3

Where a person has died and the annual amount of any pension payable to his widow or any dependent child is less than £104, the Secretary of State may discharge his liability in respect of that pension by the payment of a lump sum representing its capital value.