{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-and-benefits-act-1992/section-61ZA",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-and-benefits-act-1992/section-61ZA.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": "section/61ZA",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "61ZA",
  "heading": "Shortfall in contributions: people with units of additional pension",
  "text": "(1) This section applies to a person who has one or more units of additional pension if the person—\n(a) is not entitled to a Category A retirement pension, but\n(b) would be entitled to a Category A retirement pension if the relevant contribution conditions were satisfied.\n(2) The relevant contribution conditions are to be taken to be satisfied for the purposes of the person's entitlement to a Category A retirement pension.\n(3) But where a person is entitled to a Category A retirement pension because of this section, the only element of that pension to which the person is so entitled is the additional pension attributable to the units of additional pension.\n(4) For units of additional pension, see section 14A.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 61ZA-61ZC inserted (12.10.2015) by Pensions Act 2014 (c. 19), s. 56(1), Sch. 15 para. 9; S.I. 2015/1475, art. 3(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/4/section/61ZA",
    "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."
}