{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-act-2002/schedule-1/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-act-2002/schedule-1/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2002/16",
  "legislation_title": "State Pension Credit Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-act-2002",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Power by regulations to make rules relating to claims, time limits, evidence etc",
  "text": "(1) Section 5 is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (2) (benefits to which the section applies) after paragraph (aa) insert—\n“(ab) state pension credit;”.\n(3) After subsection (3) insert—\n“(3A) The references in paragraphs (h) and (hh) of subsection (1) above to information or evidence needed for the determination of a claim or of any question arising in connection with a claim or (as the case may be) for a determination whether a decision on an award should be revised or should be superseded, includes, in the case of state pension credit, a reference to information or evidence as to the likelihood of future changes in a person’s circumstances which is needed for determining—\n(a) whether a period should be specified as an assessed income period under section 6 of the State Pension Credit Act 2002 in relation to any decision; and\n(b) if so, the length of the period to be so specified.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 3 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 22(3); Sch. 1 in force for certain purposes at 2.7.2002 by S.I. 2002/1691, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 3 in force at 7.4.2003 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2003/966, art. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/16/schedule/1/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:19:34.394153+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."
}