{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-retirement-pensions-amendment-regulations-2004/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-retirement-pensions-amendment-regulations-2004/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/2283",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Retirement Pensions) Amendment Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-retirement-pensions-amendment-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999",
  "text": "In the Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999, regulation 5 (date from which a decision revised under section 9 takes effect) shall be renumbered paragraph (1) of regulation 5 and after paragraph (1) add—\n“(2) Where—\n(a) a person attains pensionable age, claims a retirement pension after the prescribed time for claiming and the Secretary of State decides (“the original decision”) that he is not entitled because—\n(i) in the case of a Category A retirement pension, the person has not satisfied the contribution conditions; or\n(ii) in the case of a Category B retirement pension, the person’s spouse has not satisfied the contribution conditions;\n(b) in accordance with regulation 50A of the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 2001 (Class 3 contributions: tax years 1996-97 to 2001-02) the Board subsequently accepts Class 3 contributions paid after the due date by the claimant or, as the case may be, the spouse;\n(c) in accordance with regulation 6A of the Social Security (Crediting and Treatment of Contributions, and National Insurance Numbers) Regulations 2001 the contributions are treated as paid on a date earlier than the date on which they were paid; and\n(d) the Secretary of State revises the original decision in accordance with regulation 11A(4)(a),\nthe revised decision shall take effect from—\n(i) 1st October 1998; or\n(ii) the date on which the claimant attained pensionable age in the case of a Category A pension, or, in the case of a Category B pension, the date on which the claimant’s spouse attained pensionable age,\nwhichever is later.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/991."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2001/1004; regulation 50A was inserted by S.I. 2004/1362."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2001/769; regulation 6A was inserted by S.I. 2004/1361."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/2283/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:19:14.788587+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."
}