{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1985/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1985/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/53",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1985",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Short service benefit for members of schemes whose employment is terminated before age of 26.",
  "text": "Paragraph 6(1)(a) of Schedule 16 to the Social Security Act 1973 (the effect of which is that an occupational pension scheme need not provide benefit for a member whose service in relevant employment is terminated before he has attained the age of 26) shall cease to have effect.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1973 c. 38."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of ss. 1, 6, 8(2)(3), 14, 21, 23–25, Sch. 1, Sch. 2 and Sch. 6 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/53/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:00:00.568833+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."
}