{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-and-benefits-act-1992/schedule-5/paragraph-6A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-and-benefits-act-1992/schedule-5/paragraph-6A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1992/4",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-and-benefits-act-1992",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/6A",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6A",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies where W (referred to in paragraph 5 above) is—\n(a) a woman who does not fall within paragraph 7(3) below and whose deceased spouse was a woman;\n(b) a man whose deceased spouse was a man; or\n(c) a surviving civil partner.\n(2) The amounts referred to in paragraph 5(2)(c) above are the following—\n(a) one-half of the increase mentioned in paragraph 5(1)(b) above, so far as attributable to employment before 6th April 1988,\n(b) one-half of the appropriate amount ... , and\n(c) one-half of any increase to which the deceased spouse or civil partner had been entitled under paragraph 5 above.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 6A inserted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Pensions and Benefit Payments) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2053), art. 1(3), Sch. para. 5(9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 5 paras. 5, 5A, 6, 6A, 7 omitted (6.4.2012 for specified purposes) by virtue of Pensions Act 2011 (c. 19), ss. 2(5), 38(4) (with s. 2(7)); S.I. 2011/3034, art. 4(b) (note that this amending provision is itself repealed (6.4.2016) by Pensions Act 2014 (c. 19), s. 56(4), Sch. 12 para. 97(a))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 6A(1) substituted (E.W.) (13.3.2014) by The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (Consequential and Contrary Provisions and Scotland) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/560), art. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 4(5)(a); and within which substituted provision was substituted para. (a) (E.W.) (10.12.2014) by The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (Consequential and Contrary Provisions and Scotland) and Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/3168), art. 1(2)(3), Sch. para. 11(4); and Sch. 5 para. 6A(1) substituted (S.) (16.12.2014) by The Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 and Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/3229), art. 1(2), Sch. 4 para. 2(18)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 6A(2)(b) repealed (with effect in relation to the tax year 2010-2011 and subsequent tax years) by Pensions Act 2007 (c. 22), ss. 27(7), 30(1)(a)(3), Sch. 1 para. 20, Sch. 7 Pt. 3 (with s. 5(3)-(7)); S.I. 2010/2650"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 6A(2)(c) inserted (E.W.) (13.3.2014) by The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (Consequential and Contrary Provisions and Scotland) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/560), art. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 4(5)(b); and inserted (S.) (16.12.2014) by The Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 and Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/3229), art. 1(2), Sch. 4 para. 2(18)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 paras. 4-7 modified (6.10.2002) by The Social Security (Inherited SERPS) Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/1085), regs. 1(1), 2, Sch. (as amended (5.12.2005) by S.I. 2005/3030, regs. 1, 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "omitted",
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      "affecting_title": "Pensions Act 2011"
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    {
      "type": "words omitted",
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      "affecting_title": "Pensions Act 2011"
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    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2011/19",
      "affecting_title": "Pensions Act 2011"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2011/19",
      "affecting_title": "Pensions Act 2011"
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    {
      "type": "omitted",
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      "affecting_title": "Pensions Act 2011"
    },
    {
      "type": "amendment to earlier affecting provision S.I. 2005/469 reg. 2(4)(a)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/516",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Deferral of Retirement Pensions etc.) Regulations 2006"
    }
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/4/schedule/5/paragraph/6A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:36:29.915383+00:00"
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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."
}