The National Insurance (New Entrants Transitional) Amendment Regulations 1958

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations provide, for the purposes of the right to retirement pension of a woman by virtue of her own insurance, a method of calculating the yearly average of contributions of a husband who entered insurance on 5th July, 1948, but who attained the age of sixty-five or whose marriage terminated by death or otherwise before the expiration of his first contribution year. They also provide that new entrants who (being over school-leaving age on 5th July, 1948) attain the age of sixty-five in the case of a man or sixty in the case of a woman within three years of entry into insurance and so cannot satisfy the contribution conditions for widow's benefit or retirement pension, shall not, on attaining that age, be liable to pay contributions as employed or self-employed persons and shall be entitled in respect of each contribution paid to a refund of that portion of the contribution which is attributable to widow's benefit and retirement pension.

The National Insurance (New Entrants Transitional) Amendment Provisional Regulations, 1958, are revoked and replaced by these Regulations.

Preliminary drafts of these Regulations were submitted to the National Insurance Advisory Committee in accordance with section 77 of the National Insurance Act, 1946, and their reports thereon, dated the 14th July, 1958, are contained in House of Commons Paper No. 258 (Session 1957–58) published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office.