{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-act-1971/schedule-3/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-act-1971/schedule-3/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1971/56",
  "legislation_title": "Pensions (Increase) Act 1971",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-act-1971",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "It shall be the duty of the original holding company to increase in accordance with this Act any pension which is payable under the principal civil service pension scheme within the meaning of section 2 of the Superannuation Act 1972 but in relation to which the original holding company is the pension authority by virtue of paragraph 2 of Schedule 3 to the Postal Services Act 2000 as it has effect by reference tosection 44 of the Post Office Act 1969; and where under the Post Office Act 1969 or any enactment reproducing its effect part of a pension so payable is to be paid by the original holding company and part is not, this Act shall apply as if the two parts were separate pensions.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 3 substituted (1.10.2011) by Postal Services Act 2011 (c. 5), s. 93(2)(3), Sch. 12 para. 96(2); S.I. 2011/2329, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), Sch. 6 para. 90(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 3 substituted (26.3.2001) by 2000 c. 26, s. 127(4), Sch. 8 Pt. II para. 12(b); S.I. 2001/1148, art. 2(2), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 3 inserted (26.3.2001) by 2000 c. 26, s. 127(4), Sch. 8 Pt. II para. 12(c); S.I. 2001/1148, art. 2(2), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 3 substituted (26.3.2001) by 2000 c. 26, s. 127(4), Sch. 8 Pt. II para. 12(d); S.I. 2001/1148, art. 2(2), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1972 c. 11."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1969 c. 48."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Para. 3 extended by Pensions (Increase) Act 1974 (c. 9), s. 2 (2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/56/schedule/3/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:49:44.951420+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."
}