Regulation 4 Saving
Regulation 2 shall not apply where –
(a)
a person’s claim for state pension credit is backdated in accordance with regulation 36 (claims for state pension credit) of the State Pension Credit (Consequential, Transitional and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003, and
(b)
a change of a kind specified in the paragraph (17C) substituted by regulation 2 or, as the case may be, the first such change occurred before 5th April 2004.