1984 No. 1704
The Social Security (Widow'S Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Amendment Regulations 1984
Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into Operation
The Secretary of State for Social Services, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 39(1) and 168(1) of, and Schedule 20 to, the Social Security Act 19751 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after agreement with the Social Security Advisory Committee that proposals to make these regulations should not be referred to it2, hereby makes the following regulations:—
Citation, interpretation and commencement1
These regulations, which may be cited as the Social Security (Widow's Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Amendment Regulations 1984 amend the Social Security (Widow's Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Regulations 1979 (hereinafter referred to as “the principal regulations”) and shall come into operation on 26th November 1984.
Amendment of regulation 10 of the principal regulations2
For paragraph (a) of regulation 10 of the principal regulations (conditions for entitlement to a Category D retirement pension) there shall be substituted—
a
was resident in Great Britain for a period of at least 10 years in any continuous period of 20 years which included the day before that on which he attained the age of 80 or any day thereafter; and
Satisfaction of the new condition of entitlement by a person who has failed to satisfy the old3
A person's failure to satisfy the old condition of entitlement contained in regulation 10(a) of the principal regulations as made, shall not prevent his becoming entitled hereafter by satisfying the new condition which is substituted by these regulations.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Services.