These Regulations make provision for providing rates of invalidity pension and Category A retirement pension under sections 15 and 16 of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 for certain classes of widows and widowers to whom those sections apply. They also prescribe periods in connection with entitlement to benefit under the said section 16.
Regulations 2, being made under the Social Security (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1977, is not required to be referred to the National Insurance Advisory Committee.