{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-state-pension-credit-regulations-2002/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-state-pension-credit-regulations-2002/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2002/0110424395",
  "legislation_title": "The State Pension Credit Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-state-pension-credit-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Persons receiving treatment outside Great Britain",
  "text": "For the purposes of the Act, a person who is not in Great Britain shall be treated as being in Great Britain during any period in which he is receiving treatment at a hospital or other institution outside Great Britain if the treatment is being provided under section 3 of the National Health Service Act 1977 or pursuant to arrangements made under section 23 of that Act or paragraph 13 of Schedule 2 to the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1977 c. 49; the power in section 23 has been delegated to Health Authorities by regulation 2(1) of and Schedule 1 to the NHS (Functions of Health Authorities and Administrative Arrangements) (England) Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/747). It has been delegated to Primary Care Trusts by regulation 3(2)(a) of and Schedule 1 to the Primary Care Trust (Functions) (England) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/695)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1990 c. 19."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2002/0110424395/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:25:56.559550+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."
}