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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-and-benefits-act-1992/schedule-5/paragraph-7ZA",
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  "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/7ZA",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7ZA",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This paragraph modifies paragraphs 5A to 6A in cases where—\n(a) W became entitled to a Category A or Category B retirement pension before 6 April 2012, and\n(b) S died before 6 April 2012.\n(“W” and “S” have the same meaning as in paragraph 5.)\n(2) Paragraph 5A applies as if—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (2), after paragraph (a), there were inserted—\n“(b) the appropriate amount; and”;\n(b) in sub-paragraph (3), after “following—”, there were inserted—\n“(a) one half of the appropriate amount; and”.\n(3) Paragraph 6 applies as if—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (2), after paragraph (a), there were inserted—\n“(b) the appropriate amount; and”;\n(b) in sub-paragraph (3), after paragraph (b), there were inserted—\n“(c) the appropriate amount reduced by the amount of any increases under section 109 of the Pensions Act; and”;\n(c) in sub-paragraph (4), after paragraph (a), there were inserted—\n“(b) one half of the appropriate amount; and”.\n(4) Paragraph 6A applies as if in sub-paragraph (2), after paragraph (a), there were inserted—\n“(b) one half of the appropriate amount; and”.\n(5) In paragraphs 5A to 6A as modified by this paragraph, the “appropriate amount” means the greater of—\n(a) the amount by which the deceased person's Category A or Category B retirement pension had been increased under section 150(1)(e) of the Administration Act; or\n(b) the amount by which his or her Category A or Category B retirement pension would have been so increased had he or she died immediately before the surviving spouse or civil partner became entitled to a Category A or Category B retirement pension.\n(6) In sub-paragraph (1)(a) the reference to becoming entitled to a pension before 6 April 2012 includes a reference to becoming entitled on or after that day to the payment of a pension in respect of a period before that day.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 7ZA inserted (6.4.2016) by Pensions Act 2014 (c. 19), s. 56(4), Sch. 12 para. 94(3)"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "type": "omitted",
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    },
    {
      "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/7ZA",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:36:29.915383+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."
}