Modification of the Social Security Act 1975 in relation to widow’s payment

2.  After paragraph (2) of regulation 4 of the principal regulations there shall be inserted the following paragraph:

“(2A) In the case of a widow’s payment, paragraph (1) above shall apply only where—

(a) the woman or her late husband was in Great Britain at the time of his death; or

(b) Sub-paragraph (a) above does not apply but the woman returned to Great Britain within 4 weeks of her husband’s death; or

(c) the contribution conditions for widowed mother’s allowance and widow’s pension set out in paragraph 5 of Schedule 3 to the Act or in regulation 6 of the Social Security (Widow’s Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Regulations 1979(1) are satisfied in relation to the woman.”

(1)

S.I. 1979/642.