{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-malta-order-1996/schedule/paragraph-wrapper16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-malta-order-1996/schedule/paragraph-wrapper16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1927",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Malta) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-malta-order-1996",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/wrapper16",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Article 15 Insurance periods of less than one qualifying or reckonable year",
  "text": "(1) Where all the insurance periods completed by a person under the legislation of any part of the United Kingdom total less than one qualifying year, or one reckonable year, those periods shall be treated in accordance with paragraph (2) or (3).\n(2) Insurance periods under paragraph (1), or paragraph (5) of Article 16, shall be treated as follows:\n(a) as if they had been completed under the legislation of any part of the United Kingdom under which a benefit is, or if such periods are taken into account, would be, payable, or\n(b) where a benefit is, or would be, payable under the legislation of two or more parts of the United Kingdom as if they had been completed under the legislation of that part which, at the date on which entitlement first arose or arises, is paying, or would pay, the greater, or greatest, amount.\n(3) Where no benefit is, or would be, payable under paragraph (2), insurance periods under paragraph (1) shall be treated as if they had been completed under the legislation of Malta.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1927/schedule/paragraph/wrapper16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:38:18.007422+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."
}