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Statutory Instruments

1992 No. 1695

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Social Security (Widow’s Benefit and Retirement Pensions) (Amendment) Regulations 1992

Made

14th July 1992

Laid before Parliament

15th July 1992

Coming into force

5th August 1992

The Secretary of State for Social Security, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 55(1) and 175(1) and (3) of, and paragraph 2(2) of Schedule 5 to, the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992(1) and all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee that the proposals to make these Regulations need not be referred to it(2), hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and Commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Widow’s Benefit and Retirement Pensions) (Amendment) Regulations 1992 and shall come into force on 5th August 1992.

Amendment of regulation 4 of the Social Security (Widow’s Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Regulations 1979

2.  In regulation 4 of the Social Security (Widow’s Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Regulations 1979(3), in paragraph (1)(b)(ii), for the words “injury benefit or an unemployability supplement” there shall be substituted the words “injury benefit, graduated retirement benefit or an unemployability supplement”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.

Ann Widdecombe

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department of Social Security

14th July 1992

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Social Security (Widow’s Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Regulations 1979 (S.I. 1979/642) by providing for a day not to be treated as a day of increment for the purposes of determining increases to a retirement pension if it is a day in respect of which a person receives graduated retirement benefit.

(2)

See section 173(1)(b) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c. 5).

(3)

S.I. 1979/642. Relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1991/2742.

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