{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1973/schedule-16/paragraph-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1973/schedule-16/paragraph-17.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1973/38",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security Act 1973",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1973",
  "path": "schedule/16/paragraph/17",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) No rule must operate so as to deprive a person of short service benefit (whether a member himself, or a member’s widow or widower or dependant) by reference to—\n(a) failure by him or any other person to make a claim for the benefit or for any payment due as benefit; or\n(b) failure by him or any other person, at any time after termination of pensionable service, to give any notice, or comply with any formality, required by the scheme as a condition of entitlement.\n(2) Sub-paragraph (1)(a) above is not to prevent reliance on any enactment relating to the limitation of action; and in cases of failure to claim, the scheme may provide for the right to receive any payment to be forfeited in the event of its not being claimed within 6 years of the date on which it became due.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted (1.10.1989) by Social Security Act 1989 (c. 24) Sch. 6, para. 4(d)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted (28.2.1991) by Social Security Act 1990 (c. 27), Sch. 4, para. 5(4)(b)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1973/38/schedule/16/paragraph/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:47:10.263136+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."
}