{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1973/schedule-16/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1973/schedule-16/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1973/38",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security Act 1973",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1973",
  "path": "schedule/16/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "“Scheme” means an occupational pension scheme; and in relation to a scheme—\n(a) “relevant employment” means any employment to which the scheme applies;\n(b) “long service benefit” means the benefits which will be payable under the scheme, in accordance with legal obligation, to or in respect of a member of the scheme on the assumption that he remains in relevant employment , and continues to render service which qualifies him for benefits,until he attains normal pension age;\nand in paragraph (b) above “benefits” means retirement benefit for the member himself at normal pension age or benefit for the member’s wife or husband, widow or widower, or dependants, or others, on his attaining that age or his death thereafter, or both such descriptions of benefit.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words inserted (28.2.91) by Social Security Act 1990 (c. 27), Sch. 4, para. 5(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted (1.10.89) by Social Security Act 1989 (c. 24), Sch. 6, para. 4(a)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1973/38/schedule/16/paragraph/2",
    "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."
}