{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-reduction-of-qualifying-age-order-1972/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1972/1299",
  "legislation_title": "The Pensions Increase (Reduction of Qualifying Age) Order 1972",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-reduction-of-qualifying-age-order-1972",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The age of sixty years referred to in subsections (2)(a) and (3)(a) of section 3 of the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971 (which lay down qualifying conditions for increases of pensions) shall be reduced to the age of fifty-five years.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1972/1299/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T22:27:13.997525+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."
}