{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2014/schedule-12/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2014/schedule-12/paragraph-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2014/19",
  "legislation_title": "Pensions Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2014",
  "path": "schedule/12/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 22 (earnings factors) is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (2)—\n(a) in paragraph (a), omit the final “and”;\n(b) after paragraph (b) insert\n“; and\n(c) establishing entitlement to a state pension under Part 1 of the Pensions Act 2014 and, where relevant, calculating the rate of a state pension under that Part.”\n(3) After subsection (5) insert—\n“(5ZA) Regulations may provide for crediting—\n(a) for 1987-88 or any subsequent tax year, earnings or Class 2 or Class 3 contributions, or\n(b) for any earlier tax year, contributions of any class,\nfor the purpose of bringing an earnings factor for that tax year to a figure which will make that year a “qualifying year”, “pre-commencement qualifying year” or “post-commencement qualifying year” of a person for the purposes of Part 1 of the Pensions Act 2014 (see sections 2(4) and 4(4) of that Act).\n(5ZB) Regulations under subsection (5ZA) must provide for crediting a person with such contributions as may be specified in respect of periods on or after 6 April 1975 during which the person was—\n(a) a spouse or civil partner of a member of Her Majesty's forces,\n(b) accompanying the member on an assignment outside the United Kingdom, and\n(c) not of a description specified in the regulations.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 12 para. 6 in force at 6.4.2016 so far as not brought into force earlier by an order, see s. 56(1)(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 12 para. 6(1) in force at 15.1.2016 for specified purposes by S.I. 2015/2058, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "Sch. 12 para. 6(3) in force at 15.1.2016 for specified purposes by S.I. 2015/2058, art. 2(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/19/schedule/12/paragraph/6",
    "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."
}