Section 14 Pension sharing: reduction in the sharer's section 4 pensionI1I2

The rate of a person's state pension under section 4 is reduced under this section if the person is subject to a state scheme pension debit.

The amount by which the rate is reduced is the amount of the appropriate weekly reduction set out in Schedule 10.

A person's state pension may be reduced more than once under this section.

In this Part—

• “state scheme pension debit” means—

  1. (a)

     a new state scheme pension debit, or

  2. (b)

     an old state scheme pension debit;

• “new state scheme pension debit” means a debit under Article 46A(2)(a) of the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999;

• “old state scheme pension debit” means a debit under Article 46(1)(a) of that Order.