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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2003/28",
  "legislation_title": "The State Pension Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-regulations-northern-ireland-2003",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Persons temporarily absent from Northern Ireland",
  "text": "A claimant’s entitlement to state pension credit during periods of temporary absence from Northern Ireland is to continue for up to 13 weeks if—\n(a) the period of the claimant’s absence from Northern Ireland is unlikely to exceed 52 weeks, and\n(b) while absent from Northern Ireland the claimant continues to satisfy the other conditions of entitlement to state pension credit.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 3,3(A) substituted (6.10.2008) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 3) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 (S.R. 2008/410), regs. 1(1), 3(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2017/1",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit and State Pension Credit (Temporary Absence) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017"
    },
    {
      "type": "word omitted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2025/136",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Habitual Residence, Past Presence and Temporary Absence) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2025/136",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Habitual Residence, Past Presence and Temporary Absence) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2025/136",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Habitual Residence, Past Presence and Temporary Absence) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/28/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:05:09.593277+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."
}