{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2014/schedule-1/paragraph-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2014/schedule-1/paragraph-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2014/19",
  "legislation_title": "Pensions Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2014",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A person's amount for post-commencement qualifying years (if any) is calculated as follows.\n(2) If the person has 35 or more post-commencement qualifying years, the amount is equal to the full rate of the state pension on the day on which the person reached pensionable age.\n(3) If the person has fewer than 35 post-commencement qualifying years, the amount is equal to the following proportion of the full rate of the state pension on the day on which the person reached pensionable age—\n1 35 × the person's number of post-commencement qualifying years.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 7 in force at 6.4.216, see s. 56(1)(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/19/schedule/1/paragraph/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:07:37.828516+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."
}