{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-3A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-3A.json",
  "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/3A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3A",
  "heading": "Persons temporarily absent from Northern Ireland on 6th October 2008",
  "text": "Where a claimant—\n(a) is already temporarily absent from Northern Ireland on 6th October 2008;\n(b) had a continuing entitlement to state pension credit immediately before that day, and\n(c) while absent from Northern Ireland, continues to satisfy the other conditions of entitlement to state pension credit,\nthe claimant’s entitlement to state pension credit is to continue during that period of absence from Northern Ireland for up to 13 weeks.",
  "extent": null,
  "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": "omitted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2017/1",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit and State Pension Credit (Temporary Absence) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/28/regulation/3A",
    "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."
}