{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefits-up-rating-order-1993/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/349",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefits-up-rating-order-1993",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Increases in rates or amounts of certain pensions or allowances under the 1992 Act",
  "text": "(1) The sums specified in paragraphs (2), (3) and (4) below shall be increased from and including the respective dates specified in article 6 below.\n(2) The sums falling to be calculated under paragraph 13(4) of Schedule 7 to the 1992 Act (calculation of weekly rate of retirement allowance) shall be increased by 3.6 per cent. of their amount apart from this Order.\n(3) In section 44(4) of the 1992 Act (basic pension in a Category A retirement pension)—\n(a) for the sum of £51.95 there shall be substituted the sum of £53.80; and\n(b) for the sum of £54.15 there shall be substituted the sum of £56.10.\n(4) It is hereby directed that the sums which are—\n(a) the additional pensions in long-term benefits calculated by reference to any final relevant year earlier than the tax year 1992/93,\n(b) the increases in the rates of retirement pensions under Schedule 5 to the 1992 Act (increase of pension where entitlement is deferred), and\n(c) payable to a pensioner as part of his Category A or Category B retirement pension by virtue of an order made under section 126A of the Social Security Act 1975 or section 63 of the Social Security Act 1986,\nshall in each case be increased by 3.6 per cent.of their amount apart from this Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 151(1) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1975 c. 14; section 126A was inserted by section 12 of the Social Security Act 1979 (c. 18) and repealed by the Social Security Act 1986, section 86, Schedule 11."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1986 c. 50."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/349/article/4",
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  },
  "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."
}