{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-act-northern-ireland-2002/section-3ZA",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-act-northern-ireland-2002/section-3ZA.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2002/14",
  "legislation_title": "State Pension Credit Act (Northern Ireland) 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-act-northern-ireland-2002",
  "path": "section/3ZA",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3ZA",
  "heading": "Power to limit savings credit for certain mixed-age couples",
  "text": "(1) Regulations may provide that, in prescribed cases, a person who is a member of a mixed-age couple is not entitled to a savings credit.\n(2) For example, the regulations could provide that a member of a mixed-age couple is not entitled to a savings credit unless—\n(a) the person has been awarded a savings credit with effect from a day before 6 April 2016 and was entitled to a savings credit immediately before that date, and\n(b) the person remained entitled to state pension credit at all times since the beginning of 6 April 2016.\n(3) In this section “ mixed-age couple ” means a couple (whenever formed) one member of which had attained pensionable age before 6 April 2016 and the other had not.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 3ZA inserted (14.9.2015) by Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 5), s. 53(3), Sch. 12 para. 74; S.R. 2015/329, art. 2(2)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2002/14/section/3ZA",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:21:32.497141+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."
}