The Social Security Benefit (Persons Abroad) Amendment Regulations 1988

• Citation: S.I. 1988/435
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security Benefit (Persons Abroad) Amendment Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 11th April 1988.

(2) In these Regulations“the principal regulations” means the Social Security Benefit (Persons Abroad) Regulations 1975 .

Section 2 Modification of the Social Security Act 1975 in relation to widow’s payment

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 are satisfied in relation to the woman.

Section 3 Amendment of regulation 5 of the principal regulations

In regulation 5(1) of the principal regulations, for the words“section 124 or section 126A of the Act (up-rating of benefits and increments in guaranteed minimum pensions) as the case may be”, there shall be substituted the words“section 63 of the Social Security Act 1986 (up-rating of benefits and increments in guaranteed minimum pensions)”.