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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-act-2002/schedule-2/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2002/16",
  "legislation_title": "State Pension Credit Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-act-2002",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Part 7 and supplementary provisions",
  "text": "(1) Section 137 is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (1), insert the following entries at the appropriate place—\n““pensionable age” has the meaning given by the rules in paragraph 1 of Schedule 4 to the Pensions Act 1995 (c. 26);”;\n““the qualifying age for state pension credit” is (in accordance with section 1(2)(b) and (6) of the State Pension Credit Act 2002)—\n(a) in the case of a woman, pensionable age; or\n(b) in the case of a man, the age which is pensionable age in the case of a woman born on the same day as the man;”;\n““state pension credit” means state pension credit under the State Pension Credit Act 2002;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 4 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 22(3); Sch. 2 in force for certain purposes at 2.7.2002 by S.I. 2002/1691, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 4 in force at 6.10.2003 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2003/1766, art. 2(a)"
    }
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/16/schedule/2/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:19:34.394153+00:00"
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  "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."
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