{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-past-prime-ministers-regulations-1991/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-past-prime-ministers-regulations-1991/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/787",
  "legislation_title": "The Pensions Increase (Past Prime Ministers) Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-past-prime-ministers-regulations-1991",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "For the purposes of the 1971 Acta pension paid to a person who ceased to hold office as Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury before 28th February 1991 shall be deemed to have begun on that date and the “basic rate”of that pension means the pension as increased by the 1991 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Official pensions are now increased in accordance with section 59 of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 (c. 60), which by virtue of section 59(7) has effect as if it was contained in Part I of the 1971 Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/787/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:47:08.025842+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."
}