{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2014-transitional-and-transitory-provisions-order-2016/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2014-transitional-and-transitory-provisions-order-2016/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/408",
  "legislation_title": "The Pensions Act 2014 (Transitional and Transitory Provisions) Order 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2014-transitional-and-transitory-provisions-order-2016",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Transitional provisions",
  "text": "(1) This article applies to a case in which the spouse or civil partner mentioned in paragraph 3(1) of Schedule 3 to the Pensions Act 2014 (survivor’s pension: inherited amount where dead spouse or civil partner was in the old state pension system) died—\n(a) on or after 6th April 2016; but\n(b) before the day on which section 30 of the Pensions Act 2014 comes fully into force.\n(2) In a case to which this article applies—\n(a) paragraph 3(1)(d) of Schedule 3 to the Pensions Act 2014 is to be read as if it provides—\n“(d) the pensioner would, on reaching pensionable age, have been entitled to a Category B retirement pension under section 48BB of the Contributions and Benefits Act if in subsections (1) and (3) of that section the words “before 6 April 2016” were omitted.”; and\n(b) paragraph 3(2) of that Schedule is to be read as if it provides—\n“(2) The inherited amount is equal to the weekly rate at which that Category B retirement pension would have been payable on the day on which the pensioner reached pensionable age if any element of the rate attributable to the basic pension were ignored.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/408/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:25:07.285050+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."
}