{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2014/section-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2014/section-19.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2014/19",
  "legislation_title": "Pensions Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2014",
  "path": "section/19",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Prisoners",
  "text": "(1) Regulations may provide that a person is not to be paid a state pension under this Part for any period during which the person is a prisoner.\n(2) “Prisoner” means a person (in Great Britain or elsewhere) who is—\n(a) imprisoned or detained in legal custody, or\n(b) unlawfully at large.\n(3) In the case of a person remanded in custody for an offence, regulations under subsection (1) may be made so as to apply only if a sentence of a specified description is later imposed on the person for the offence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 19 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": "S. 19(1)(3) in force at 5.2.2015 for specified purposes by S.I. 2015/134, art. 2(1)(4)(g)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/19/section/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T17:01:53.645780+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."
  }
}