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These regulations, which may be cited as
the Social Security (Benefit) (Married Women and Widows Special Provisions)
Amendment Regulations 1980, amend the 
Social Security (Benefit) (Married Women and Widows Special Provisions) Regulations
1974 (hereinafter referred to
as “the principal regulations”)
and shall come into operation on 11th August 1980.
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After regulation 3
of the principal regulations there shall be inserted the following regulations:—
“
3A 

(1) The provisions of 
paragraphs 4(1) and 4A(1)
of Schedule 1 to the 
Social Security Pensions Act 1975 (increase of pension where
a woman's deceased husband had deferred retirement) shall, in the case of
a woman who attains pensionable age on or after the date on which this regulation
comes into operation, be modified in accordance with 
paragraph (2) of this regulation.
(2) For the purpose of an increase of a woman's
Category A or Category B retirement pension, where a woman has had a husband
and he has died before she attains pensionable age, and she was married to
him when he died, paragraph 4(1)(a)
or, as the case may be, paragraph 4A(1)(a) of
the said Schedule 1 shall apply to her case
as if there were inserted in each of the said paragraphs after the words 
“she was married to him when he died” the words 
“and since his death she has not remarried before attaining pensionable
age”.

3B 

(1) The provisions of 
Part I of Schedule 6 to the Social
Security Act 1975 (computation of weekly rate of earnings-related
supplements and addition) shall be modified in accordance with 
paragraph (3) of this regulation where the
weekly rate of earnings-related addition to a widow's allowance is to be ascertained
in a case to which by virtue of paragraph (2)
 below this regulation applies.
(2) This regulation applies in a case where
the relevant year is a year in which there were earnings paid to or for the
benefit of the widow's late husband, as an employed earner who had not retired
from regular employment, in respect of which he was not liable to pay primary
Class 1 contributions by virtue of section 4
 of the Social Security Pensions Act
1975 (exception in respect of earnings earned after attaining
pensionable age) or of regulation
17A of the Social Security (Contributions) 
Regulations 1975 or of 
regulation 20 of the Social Security
(Contributions) Regulations 1979 (exceptions in respect of earnings earned before
but paid on or after attaining pensionable age).
(3) In a case to which this regulation applies
the provisions of Part I of the said Schedule
6 shall have effect so that the late husband's
reckonable weekly earnings shall be those earnings of his for that year, divided
by 50, in respect of which he—
(a) was liable to pay primary Class 1 contributions;
or
(b) would have been so liable but for the
said section 4
or but for the said regulation 17A,
as regards earnings paid prior to 6th July 1979, or but for the said 
regulation 20, as regards earnings paid on
or after 6th July 1979, as the case may be.”
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The Social Security
(Earnings-Related Addition to Widow's Allowance) (Special Provisions) Regulations
1979 are hereby revoked.
Patrick Jenkin
Secretary of State for Social Services
6th August 1980