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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-northern-ireland-2015/schedule-6/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-northern-ireland-2015/schedule-6/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2015/5",
  "legislation_title": "Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-northern-ireland-2015",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies to the woman if on reaching pensionable age—\n(a) she is married to a person who has reached pensionable age, or\n(b) she is in a civil partnership with a person who has reached that age.\n(2) The transitional rate of the state pension for the woman is—\n(a) the rate determined for her under section 5, or\n(b) if higher, a weekly rate equal to the modified amount for her pre-commencement qualifying years alone.\n(3) The modified amount for the woman's pre-commencement qualifying years alone is the amount that would be calculated under Schedule 1 for her pre- commencement qualifying years alone if the basic pension in any Category A retirement pension calculated for her for the purposes of paragraph 3 of that Schedule were equal to the basic Category B amount.\n(4) “The basic Category B amount” is the amount specified in paragraph 5 of Part 1 of Schedule 4 to the Contributions and Benefits Act on 6 April 2016.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 2 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/6/paragraph/2",
    "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."
}