{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-regulations-2002/schedule-IIA/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-regulations-2002/schedule-IIA/paragraph-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/1792",
  "legislation_title": "The State Pension Credit Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-regulations-2002",
  "path": "schedule/IIA/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Temporary absence in Great Britain",
  "text": "A claimant is to be treated as not being responsible for a child or qualifying young person during periods of temporary absence of the child or qualifying young person in Great Britain if the period of absence is likely to exceed 52 weeks, except where there are exceptional circumstances (for example, the child or qualifying young person is in hospital), and the absence is unlikely to be substantially more than 52 weeks.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2A inserted (1.2.2019) by The State Pension Credit (Additional Amount for Child or Qualifying Young Person) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/676), regs. 1, 2(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/1792/schedule/IIA/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:44:20.157383+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."
}