{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/savings-certificates-regulations-1991/schedule-1/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/savings-certificates-regulations-1991/schedule-1/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1031",
  "legislation_title": "The Savings Certificates Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/savings-certificates-regulations-1991",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Persons entitled to hold index-linked certificates purchased before7th September 1981",
  "text": "An index-linked certificate issued before 7th September 1981 may beheld by any person who—\n(a) is not under a legal disability, and\n(b) had at the date he or she purchased the index-linked certificateattained the minimum eligible age, that is—\n(i) in relation to an index-linked certificate issued not laterthan 16th November 1980, the age of 65 years in the case of a man or theage of 60 years in the case of a woman;\n(ii) in relation to an index-linked certificate issued after 16thNovember 1980 but not later than 5th April 1981 the age of 60 years; or\n(iii) in relation to an index-linked certificate issued after 5thApril 1981, the age of 50 years;\nor by any two or more of such persons jointly:\nProvided that nothing in sub-paragraph (b) shall prevent anindex-linked certificate, whenever issued, from being transferred to aperson who is at the date of transfer eligible to hold an index-linkedcertificate.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2007/1898",
      "affecting_title": "The Mental Capacity Act 2005 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Order 2007"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1031/schedule/1/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:45:16.487717+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."
}