{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-abolition-of-earnings-rule-consequential-regulations-1989/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-abolition-of-earnings-rule-consequential-regulations-1989/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1642",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Abolition of Earnings Rule) (Consequential) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-abolition-of-earnings-rule-consequential-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Social Security Benefit (Persons Abroad) Regulations 1975",
  "text": "(1) The Social Security Benefit (Persons Abroad) Regulations 1975 shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.\n(2) In regulation 4(3) for sub-paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph–\n“(a) the date on which the person whose pension falls to be so increased first became entitled to that pension; or”.\n(3) In regulation 5 (application of disqualification in respect of up-rating of benefit)–\n(a) in paragraph (3)–\n(i) in sub-paragraph (a) the words “was not entitled to a Category B retirement pension” shall be substituted for the words “had not retired”, and the words “was entitled to a Category A retirement pension” shall be substituted for the words “had retired”;\n(ii) in sub-paragraph (c), the words “retired or had otherwise” shall be omitted; and\n(iii) in sub-paragraph (d), the words “had become entitled to a Category A retirement pension or had” shall be substituted for the words “had retired or”;\n(b) in paragraph (5)(i) the words “was entitled to a Category A retirement pension” shall be substituted for the words “had retired from regular employment”;\n(c) in paragraph (6)(i) the words “was entitled to a Category A retirement pension” shall be substituted for the words “had retired from regular employment”; and\n(d) in paragraph (7) the words “was not entitled to a Category A retirement pension” shall be substituted for the words “had not retired”.\n(4) In regulation 6 (modification of right to defer entitlement to a Category A or Category B retirement pension) the words “(election to be treated as not having retired)” shall be omitted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1975/563."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Paragraph (3) of regulation 4 was inserted by regulation 2(b) of S.I. 1979/1432; see also section 18(1) of the Social Security Act 1986."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1642/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:37:20.008497+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."
}