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.”.