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(1) These regulations may be cited as the
Social Security (Transitional) Amendment Regulations 1975, and
shall come into operation on 20th November 1975.
(2) The rules for the construction of Acts
of Parliament contained in the 
Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply in relation
to this instrument and in relation to the revocation effected by it as if
this instrument and the regulation revoked by it were Acts of Parliament and
as if the revocation were a repeal.
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(1) The 
Social Security (Short-Term Benefits) (Transitional) Regulations 1974, as amended,
shall be further amended in accordance with the following provisions of this
regulation.
(2) In regulation
4 (modifications relating to “contribution
year” and “benefit year” under the
1965 Act) after paragraph (1)
there shall be inserted the following paragraph:—“
(1A) Where by virtue of 
regulation 3 a claim for unemployment or sickness
benefit in respect of a day in the period from 2nd January 1977 to 28th May
1977 (inclusive of both dates) falls to be determined by reference to the
contribution conditions in the 1965 Act it shall be determined as if the benefit
year were the benefit year which by virtue of 
paragraph (1) ended for the claimant in question
on 1st January 1977”.
(3) In regulation
8 (exhaustion of and requalification for unemployment
or sickness benefit by a former contributor)—
(a) in paragraph
(2) after the words “sickness
benefit” in the second place in which they occur there shall
be inserted the words “or invalidity benefit”;

(b) in paragraph
(3)(b)(i) after the words “sickness
benefit” there shall be inserted the words “or
invalidity benefit”.
(4) After regulation
15 there shall be added the following regulation:—
“
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Where a former contributor makes a claim for unemployment benefit
or sickness benefit in respect of a day which is after 28th May 1977 and which
is in a period of interruption of employment commencing on or before 1st January
1977, for the purposes of the second contribution condition set out in 
paragraph 1(3) of Schedule 3 to the 
Social Security Act 1975 the relevant past
year shall be the year ending 5th April 1976.”
3 
After regulation
2 of the Social Security (Maternity
Allowance) (Transitional) Regulations 1974 there shall be added the following regulation:—
“
3 
In a case in which the expected week of confinement begins on or
after 20th March 1977 and the relevant time is in a period of interruption
of employment which began on or before 1st January 1977, for the purposes
of the second contribution condition set out in 
paragraph 3(3) of Schedule 3 to the 
Social Security Act 1975 the relevant past
year shall be the year ending 5th April 1976.”
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Regulation 6
of the Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional
Provisions) Regulations 1975 is hereby revoked.
Barbara Castle
Secretary of State for Social Services
28th October 1975