{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-state-pension-credit-pilot-scheme-regulations-2010/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-state-pension-credit-pilot-scheme-regulations-2010/regulation-9.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2010/9780111495063",
  "legislation_title": "The State Pension Credit Pilot Scheme Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-state-pension-credit-pilot-scheme-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Selection of beneficiaries for the purposes of the 2002 Act",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State shall select persons on a random basis from those whom the Secretary of State estimates, taking into account the information specified in paragraph (2), would be entitled to state pension credit under section 1 of the State Pension Credit Act 2002 if such persons were to make a claim for that benefit under section 1 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992.\n(2) The information referred to in paragraph (1) is information—\n(a) held by the Secretary of State in relation to social security; and\n(b) supplied to the Secretary of State for the purposes of functions relating to social security.\n(3) The Secretary of State shall not select more than 2000 persons.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c. 5. State pension credit is a benefit to which section 1 applies by virtue of section 1(4)(ab), inserted by paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 1 to the State Pension Credit Act 2002 (c. 16)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2010/9780111495063/regulation/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:55:15.291592+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}