{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-reciprocal-agreements-order-2016/schedule-1/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2016/158",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Reciprocal Agreements) Order 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-reciprocal-agreements-order-2016",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/4",
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  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Where in the agreements set out in the Schedules to the Orders in Council specified in Schedule 2 to this Order, there are provisions for the determination of entitlement to an old age pension or basic retirement pension (or any equivalent terms), those provisions shall be altered so that they apply for the purposes of entitlement to a state pension under section 2 or 4 of the Pensions Act 2014 in the following way—\n(a) the United Kingdom shall take account of contribution periods or equivalent periods completed by a person under the legislation of the other Party or Parties only for the purpose of determining whether that person has the minimum number of qualifying years for entitlement to a state pension under section 2 or 4 of the Pensions Act 2014;\n(b) the United Kingdom shall pay to a person an amount of state pension under section 2 or 4 of the Pensions Act 2014 based only on the contributions paid, credited or treated as paid under its legislation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/158/schedule/1/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:27:30.357569+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."
}