{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-payments-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2008/69",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Claims and Payments) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-payments-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2008",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 3 of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987 (claims not required for entitlement to benefit in certain cases) for paragraph (cb) substitute—\n“(cb) in the case of a Category B retirement pension where the beneficiary is entitled to either a Category A retirement pension or to a graduated retirement benefit or to both and—\n(i) the spouse or civil partner of the beneficiary becomes entitled to a Category A retirement pension; or\n(ii) the beneficiary marries or enters into a civil partnership with a person who is entitled to a Category A retirement pension;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R 1987 No. 465; regulation 3(cb) was inserted by regulation 2(2)(a) of S.R. 2007 No. 392"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2008/69/regulation/2",
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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."
}