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(1) These regulations may be cited as the
Social Security (Transitional) Amendment Regulations 1976 and shall come into
operation on 26th April 1976.
(2) Each provision of these regulations which
amends other regulations shall be construed as one with the regulations which
it amends.
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(1) The 
Widow's Benefit, Retirement Pension and Other Benefits (Transitional) Regulations
1974,
as amended, shall be further amended in accordance
with the following provisions of this regulation.
(2) In regulation
6(1) (modifications relating to the first contribution
condition for widowed mother's allowance, widow's pension and Category A and
B retirement pension) the words from and including “and, in the
case of widowed mother's allowance” to the end of the paragraph
shall be omitted.
(3) In regulation
7 (modifications relating to the second contribution
condition for widowed mother's allowance, widow's pension and Category A and
B retirement pension)—
(a) in paragraph
(2) for the words “Where the contributor
concerned is” there shall be substituted the words “Subject
to paragraph (2A)
where the contributor concerned is”;
(b) after paragraph
(2) there shall be inserted the following paragraph:—
“
(2A) For the purposes of
a Category B retirement pension under section
29(2) or (3) of
the Social Security Act 1975
where the contributor concerned is a former contributor who attained pensionable
age before 6th April 1975, the second contribution condition shall be deemed
to be satisfied to the same extent as it is satisfied in relation to that
contributor for the purposes of his Category A retirement pension, so however
that this paragraph shall not apply where that contributor has died on or
after that date.”;
(c) in paragraph
(6) for the words “The working
life of a person” there shall be substituted the words 
“Subject to paragraph (6A)
the working life of a person”;
(d) after paragraph
(6) there shall be inserted the following paragraph:—
“
(6A) Where the contributor
concerned has died on or after 6th April 1975 and he was—
(a) an existing contributor whose last date
of entry into insurance under the Contributory Pensions Acts was before 30th
September 1946 and who at that date of entry was within 5 years of pensionable
age; or
(b) an existing contributor whose last date
of entry into insurance under the Contributory Pensions Act was on or after
30th September 1946 and who at that date of entry was within 10 years of pensionable
age; or
(c) a person who was not an existing contributor
and who was, immediately before 5th July 1948, within 10 years of pensionable
age,his working life shall be—
(d) where the contributor concerned is a
person to whom sub-paragraph (a)
or (b) above applies, the
period from 6th April of the year in which he last entered into insurance
under the Contributory Pensions Acts to 5th April immediately before the date
on which he completed—
(i) where sub-paragraph
(a) above applies, the said period of 5 years;

(ii) where sub-paragraph (b) above applies,
the said period of 10 years;
(e) where the contributor concerned is a
person to whom sub-paragraph (c) above applies, the period from
6th April 1948 to 5th April 1958.and the provisions of paragraph (2)
 shall apply as if any employer's contribution
paid in respect of any person to whom this paragraph applies for any period
after such person reached pensionable age were a contribution paid by that
person.”.
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In the Social
Security (Credits) Regulations 1975 in regulation
10 (transitional provisions)—
(a) in paragraph
(1) for the reference to “2(b)”
 there shall be substituted the reference “2(1)(b)”
;
(b) in paragraph
(5) there shall be added at the end the words
“
subject to the modification that for 
head (ii) of sub-paragraph (b) of that paragraph
there shall be substituted the following head:— “
(`(ii) which occurred before the beginning of the
appropriate period set out in regulation 2(1)
 of the Social Security (Maternity
Allowance) (Transitional)Regulations 1974'”.
”.
4 
In regulation
19 of the Social Security (Unemployment,
Sickness and Invalidity Benefit) Regulations 1975 (additional conditions with respect to
the receipt of unemployment benefit), in paragraph
(5) for the reference to “
paragraph 2(a)” there shall be
substituted a reference to “paragraph
(3)(a)”.
5 
In regulation
7 of the Social Security (Death Grant)
Regulations 1975 (transitional provisions relating to the contribution
condition for a death grant) after the words “so however that
any contributions” there shall be inserted the words 
“credited to him in respect of any period after his entry into insurance
under that Act or any contributions actually paid by or in respect of him”
.
Barbara Castle
Secretary of State for Social Services
1st April 1976