{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-1995/section-126",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-1995/section-126.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1995/26",
  "legislation_title": "Pensions Act 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-1995",
  "path": "section/126",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "126",
  "heading": "Equalisation of pensionable age and of entitlement to certain benefits and increase in pensionable age.",
  "text": "Schedule 4 to this Act, of which—\n(a) Part I has effect to equalise pensionable age for men and women and then to increase it,\n(b) Part II makes provision for bringing equality for men and women to certain pension and other benefits, and\n(c) Part III makes consequential amendments of enactments,\nshall have effect.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 126(a) substituted (3.1.2012) by Pensions Act 2011 (c. 19), s. 38(3)(a), Sch. 1 para. 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 126 sidenote inserted (26.9.2007) by Pensions Act 2007 (c. 22), s. 30(3), Sch. 3 para. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/26/section/126",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T17:14:42.886581+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}