1995 No. 74
The Social Security (Widow’s Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Amendment Regulations 1995
Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Secretary of State for Social Security in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 121(1)(a) and 175(1) and (3) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 19921 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee that proposals to make these Regulations should not be referred to it2, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation, commencement and interpretation1
1
These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Widow’s Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Amendment Regulations 1995 and shall come into force on 10th February 1995.
2
In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations” means the Social Security (Widow’s Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Regulations 19793.
Amendment of regulation 1 of the principal Regulations2
In regulation 1 of the principal Regulations after paragraph (3) there shall be inserted the following paragraph:
3A
For the purposes of regulation 8 of these Regulations, where, before the coming into force of the Nullity of Marriages Act 19714 a decree of nullity was granted in relation to a person on the ground that the marriage was voidable, that person shall be treated as a person whose marriage has been terminated by divorce from the date on which that decree was made absolute.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.
(This note is not part of the Regulations)