{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1979-7/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1979-7/article-7.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/1979/7",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive of 19 December 1978 on the progressive implementation of the principle of equal treatment for men and women in matters of social security (79/7/EEC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1979-7",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. This Directive shall be without prejudice to the right of Member States to exclude from its scope:\n(a) the determination of pensionable age for the purposes of granting old-age and retirement pensions and the possible consequences thereof for other benefits;\n(b) advantages in respect of old-age pension schemes granted to persons who have brought up children; the acquisition of benefit entitlements following periods of interruption of employment due to the bringing up of children;\n(c) the granting of old-age or invalidity benefit entitlements by virtue of the derived entitlements of a wife;\n(d) the granting of increases of long-term invalidity, old-age, accidents at work and occupational disease benefits for a dependent wife;\n(e) the consequences of the exercise, before the adoption of this Directive, of a right of option not to acquire rights or incur obligations under a statutory scheme.\n2. Member States shall periodically examine matters excluded under paragraph 1 in order to ascertain, in the light of social developments in the matter concerned, whether there is justification for maintaining the exclusions concerned.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1979/7/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:23:42.277094+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."
}