1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Retirement Pensions and Graduated Retirement Benefit) (Widowers and Civil Partnership) Regulations 2005 and shall come into force—
(a)for the purposes of regulation 3(10), in so far as it applies in relation to paragraphs 17 and 19 of Schedule 1 to the 2005 Regulations, on 6th April 2006;
(b)for the purposes of regulation 4, on 6th April 2006 immediately after regulation 4 of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Amendment Regulations 2005(1) and regulation 3 of the Social Security (Shared Additional Pension) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2005(2) have come into force; and
(c)for all other purposes, on 5th December 2005.
(2) In these Regulations “the 2005 Regulations” means the Social Security (Graduated Retirement Benefit) Regulations 2005(3).