PART IIMISCELLANEOUS CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS

Amendment of the Married Women and Widows Special Provisions Regulations2

In regulation 3 of the Married Women and Widows Special Provisions Regulations (modifications, in relation to widows, of provisions with respect to unemployment and sickness benefit, maternity allowance and Category A retirement pension)—

a

in the heading and in paragraph (1)(a) and (b) for the words “sickness benefit” there shall be substituted the words “short-term incapacity benefit”;

b

in paragraph (5)(a) and (b) for the words “sickness benefit wherever they occur” there shall be substituted the words “short-term incapacity benefit”.