{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-northern-ireland-2015/schedule-1/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-northern-ireland-2015/schedule-1/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2015/5",
  "legislation_title": "Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-northern-ireland-2015",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of Step 2 of the calculation in paragraph 2, the weekly rate based on the new state pension is as follows.\n(2) If the person has 35 or more pre-commencement qualifying years, the rate is equal to—\n(a) the full rate of the state pension on 6 April 2016, less\n(b) any amount to reflect contracting out under the old system (see paragraph 5).\n(3) If the person has fewer than 35 pre-commencement qualifying years, the rate is equal to—\n(a) the appropriate proportion of the full rate of the state pension on 6 April 2016, less\n(b) any amount to reflect contracting out under the old system (see paragraph 5).\n(4) The “appropriate proportion”, in relation to a person, is—\n1 35 × the person's number of pre-commencement qualifying years.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 4 in operation at 6.4.2016, see s. 53(1)(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2015/5/schedule/1/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:20:14.058015+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."
}