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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-same-sex-couples-act-2013/schedule-4/paragraph-15",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2013/30",
  "legislation_title": "Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-same-sex-couples-act-2013",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/15",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In a case where a full gender recognition certificate is issued to a person under the Gender Recognition Act 2004—\n(a) section 83 of the 1992 Act (pension increase (wife)) does not cease to apply by virtue of the change of gender; and\n(b) in the continued application of section 83 in such a case, references to a pension payable to a man, or references to his wife, are to be construed accordingly.\n(2) In a case where a full gender recognition certificate is issued to a person under the Gender Recognition Act 2004—\n(a) section 84 of the 1992 Act (pension increase (husband)) does not cease to apply by virtue of the change of gender; and\n(b) in the continued application of section 84 in such a case, references to a pension payable to a woman, or references to her husband, are to be construed accordingly.\n(3) In this paragraph “the 1992 Act” means the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 15 in force at 10.12.2014 by S.I. 2014/3169, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2013/30/schedule/4/paragraph/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:08:02.807963+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."
}