{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-consequential-transitional-and-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-2002/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-consequential-transitional-and-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-2002/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/3019",
  "legislation_title": "The State Pension Credit (Consequential, Transitional and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-consequential-transitional-and-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Evidence and information",
  "text": "In regulation 7 (evidence and information)—\n(a) after paragraph (1), insert—\n“(1A) A claimant shall furnish such information and evidence as the Secretary of State may require as to the likelihood of future changes in his circumstances which is needed to determine—\n(a) whether a period should be specified as an assessed income period under section 6 of the 2002 Act in relation to any decision; and\n(b) if so, the length of the period to be so specified.\n(1B) The information and evidence required under paragraph (1A) shall be furnished within 1 month of the Secretary of State notifying the claimant of the requirement, or within such longer period as the Secretary of State considers reasonable in the claimant’s case.\n(1C) In the case of a claimant making a claim for state pension credit in the advance period, time begins to run for the purposes of paragraphs (1) and (1B) on the day following the end of that period.”;\n(b) in paragraph (4) , for the words “or jobseeker’s allowance”, substitute “ jobseeker’s allowance or state pension credit ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Amended by S.I. 1995/2303, 1996/1460 and 1999/2572."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/3019/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:37:49.199933+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."
}