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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/3019",
  "legislation_title": "The State Pension Credit (Consequential, Transitional and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2002",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 2",
  "text": "3. In regulation 2—\n(a) in paragraph (1)—\n(i) immediately before the definition of “appropriate office” insert—\n““the 2002 Act” means the State Pension Credit Act 2002;\n“advance period” means the period specified in regulation 4E(2);”;\n(ii) immediately before the definition of “instrument for benefit payment” insert—\n““guarantee credit” is to be construed in accordance with sections 1 and 2 of the 2002 Act;”;\n(iii) after the definition of “personal pension scheme” insert—\n““qualifying age” has the same meaning as in the 2002 Act by virtue of section 1(6) of that Act;”;\n(iv) after the definition of “retirement annuity contract”, insert—\n““state pension credit” means state pension credit under the 2002 Act;\n“State Pension Credit Regulations” means the State Pension Credit Regulations 2002 ;”;\n(b) in paragraph (2), in sub-paragraph (b), after the words “income support”, insert “ , state pension credit ”;\n(c) after paragraph (3), insert—\n“(4) In these Regulations, references to “beneficiary” include any person entitled to state pension credit.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "text": "Inserted by S.I. 1995/2303."
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      "text": "Inserted by S.I. 1995/2303."
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      "text": "S.I. 2002/1792."
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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