{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-review-order-1998/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-review-order-1998/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/503",
  "legislation_title": "The Pensions Increase (Review) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-review-order-1998",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Reductions in respect of guaranteed minimum pensions",
  "text": "The amount by reference to which any increase in the rate of an official pension provided for by this Order is to be calculated shall, in the case of a person—\n(a) who is entitled to a guaranteed minimum pension on 6th April 1998; and\n(b) whose entitlement to that guaranteed minimum pension arises from an employment from which (either directly or by virtue of the payment of a transfer credit) entitlement to the official pension also arises,\nbe reduced by an amount equal to the rate of the guaranteed minimum pension unless the Treasury otherwise direct, in accordance with the provisions of section 59A of the 1975 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See S.I. 1981/1670, articles 2(1)(c) and 3(5)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/503/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:36:28.647933+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."
}