{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-maximum-additional-pension-regulations-northern-ireland-2010/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-maximum-additional-pension-regulations-northern-ireland-2010/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2010/62",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Maximum Additional Pension) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-maximum-additional-pension-regulations-northern-ireland-2010",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Prescribed maximum additional pension",
  "text": "(A1) This regulation applies to a survivor whose relevant day is before 6th April 2016.\n(1) For the purposes of section 52(3) (increase of additional pension in the Category A retirement pension for surviving spouses or surviving civil partners), the maximum additional pension shall be the amount of additional pension to which a person is entitled where that person—\n(a) has reached pensionable age on the survivor’s relevant day ; and\n(b) in respect of each relevant year has an earnings factor specified in paragraph (3).\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(b), the specified earnings factor is an earnings factor which—\n(a) is equal to 53 times that year’s applicable limit, before any increase under section 130 of the Administration Act (revaluation of earnings factors); and\n(b) is derived from earnings on which primary Class 1 contributions were paid.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 2(A1) inserted (6.4.2016) by The Pensions (2015 Act) (Consequential, Supplementary and Incidental Amendments) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/411), arts. 1(b), 26(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1)(a) substituted (6.4.2016) by The Pensions (2015 Act) (Consequential, Supplementary and Incidental Amendments) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/411), arts. 1(b), 26(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 2(2) omitted (6.4.2016) by virtue of The Pensions (2015 Act) (Consequential, Supplementary and Incidental Amendments) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/411), arts. 1(b), 26(3)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in operation at 6.4.2010, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c. 8; section 130 was amended by Article 125(3) of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/3213 (N.I. 22)); see also paragraphs (4) to (6) of that Article as amended by paragraph 18 of Schedule 8 to the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2010/62/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:28:28.531425+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."
}