{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2008/section-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2008/section-15.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/30",
  "legislation_title": "Pensions Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2008",
  "path": "section/15",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Pay reference period",
  "text": "(1) In relation to any person a pay reference period is the period prescribed.\n(2) The Secretary of State may by regulations—\n(a) make provision for determining a person's earnings in any pay reference period;\n(b) make provision for determining the first date of each pay reference period in relation to a person.\n(3) A reference in any provision to the relevant pay reference period is a reference to the period determined in accordance with regulations under this section, as they apply for the purposes of that provision in the case concerned.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 15 wholly in force at 30.6.2012; s. 15 in force for certain purposes at Royal Assent see s. 149(2)(k); s. 15 in force so far as not already in force at 30.6.2012 by S.I. 2012/1682, art. 2(1)(2)(a), Sch. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/30/section/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:11:33.323762+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."
  }
}