{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-credits-regulations-1975/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-credits-regulations-1975/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1975/556",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Credits) Regulations 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-credits-regulations-1975",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Starting credits for the purposes of a maternity grant",
  "text": "For the purposes of entitlement to a maternity grant by virtue of a person's contributions he shall—\n(a) be credited with such number of Class 3 contributions as may be required to bring his relevant earnings factor for the relevant past year, if it is a year for which contributions could be credited under regulation 4 which commenced on or after 6th April 1975, to the level required to make it a reckonable year;\n(b) in the case of a person to whom regulation 5(1) applies, be entitled to Class 1 credits for the relevant past year, if (not being a year for which he is entitled to credits under sub-paragraph (a) of this paragraph) it is a year mentioned in paragraph (1), but not paragraph (2), of regulation 5.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 revoked (6.4.1988) by The Social Security (Credits) Amendment Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/516), regs. 1(1), 3(1) (with reg. 3(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1975/556/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:12:11.103774+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."
}