{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2004/schedule-11/paragraph-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2004/schedule-11/paragraph-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/35",
  "legislation_title": "Pensions Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2004",
  "path": "schedule/11/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "After paragraph 2 insert—\n“2A (1) This paragraph applies where—\n(a) a person’s entitlement to a Category A or Category B retirement pension is deferred,\n(b) the pension includes an increase under paragraphs 5 to 6, and\n(c) the person has made (or is treated as having made) an election under paragraph A1(1)(b) in relation to the period of deferment.\n(2) The rate of the person’s Category A or Category B retirement pension shall be increased by an amount equal to the aggregate of the increments to which he is entitled under sub-paragraph (3).\n(3) For each complete incremental period in the person’s period of deferment, the amount of the increment shall be 1/5th per cent. of the weekly rate of the increase to which the person would have been entitled under paragraphs 5 to 6 for the period if his entitlement to the Category A or Category B retirement pension had not been deferred.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 11 wholly in force at 6.4.2005; Sch. 11 in force at Royal Assent for specified purposes and otherwise at 6.4.2005 see s. 322"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2011/19",
      "affecting_title": "Pensions Act 2011"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/35/schedule/11/paragraph/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:16:45.114281+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."
}