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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-graduated-retirement-benefit-no-2-regulations-1978/schedule-2/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1978/393",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Graduated Retirement Benefit) (No. 2) Regulations 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-graduated-retirement-benefit-no-2-regulations-1978",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph 4 below, a person is entitled to an increment under this paragraph for each complete incremental period (beginning not earlier than 6th April 1979) in his period of enhancement.\n(2) In this Schedule—\n(a) “incremental period” means any period of 6 days which are treated by the Social Security (Widow's Benefit and Retirement Pensions) (Amendment) Regulations 1978 as days of increment for the purposes of Schedule 1 to the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 as amended by section 3 of the Social Security (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1977 in relation to the person and the pension in question; and\n(b) “period of enhancement” in relation to any person means the period which begins on the same day as the period of deferment and ends on the same day as that period ends or, if earlier, on the day before the fifth anniversary of the beginning of that period.\n(3) Subject to paragraph 4 below, the amount of the increment for any such incremental period shall be 1/7th per cent. of the weekly rate of the graduated retirement benefit to which that person would have been entitled for the period if he had not deferred his entitlement to a Category A or Category B retirement pension, the result being rounded to the nearest whole penny, taking ½p as nearest to the next whole penny above.\n(4) Where one or more orders have come into force under section 124 of the Act (increases in rates of benefit) during the period of enhancement the rate of the benefit for any incremental period shall be determined as if the order or orders had come into force before the beginning of the period of enhancement.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. (1)(b)-(4) and word omitted (6.4.2005) by virtue of The Social Security (Graduated Retirement Benefit) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/454), regs. 1(1), 3(1)(a)(b) (with 3(2)(a)(b))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 3(1) substituted (1.10.1989) by The Social Security (Abolition of Earnings Rule) (Consequential) Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/1642), regs. 1, 5(3)(c)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 3(2)(b) substituted (1.10.1989) by The Social Security (Abolition of Earnings Rule) (Consequential) Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/1642), regs. 1, 5(3)(c)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 3(3) substituted (1.10.1989) by The Social Security (Abolition of Earnings Rule) (Consequential) Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/1642), regs. 1, 5(3)(c)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 3(4) substituted (1.10.1989) by The Social Security (Abolition of Earnings Rule) (Consequential) Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/1642), regs. 1, 5(3)(c)(iv)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1978/393/schedule/2/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:38:01.579052+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."
}