{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/schedule-4/paragraph-1",
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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": "schedule/4/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In addition to any sum which falls to be disregarded in accordance with paragraphs 3 to 6, £10 of any of the following, namely –\n(a) a war disablement pension (except insofar as such a pension falls to be disregarded under paragraph 2 or 3);\n(b) a war widow’s or war widower’s pension;\n(ba) unless sub-paragraph (a) or (b) applies, any payment described in regulation 15(5)(ac) (except insofar as such a payment falls to be disregarded under paragraph 2 or 3);\n(c) a pension payable to a person as a surviving spouse or surviving civil partner under ... any power of Her Majesty otherwise than under any statutory provision, to make provision about pensions for or in respect of persons who have been disabled or have died in consequence of service as members of the armed forces of the Crown;\n(cc) a guaranteed income payment; and, if the amount of that payment has been abated to less than £10 by a pension or payment falling within Article 31(1)(a) or (b) of the Armed Forces and Reserve Forces (Compensation Scheme) Order 2005 , so much of that pension or payment as would not, in aggregate with any amount of the guaranteed income payment disregarded, exceed £10\n(d) a payment made to compensate for the non-payment of such a pension or payment as is mentioned in any of the preceding sub-paragraphs ;\n(e) a pension paid by the government of a country outside Great Britain which is analogous to any of the pensions or payments mentioned in sub-paragraphs (a) to (cc);\n(f) a pension paid to victims of National Socialist persecution under any special provision made by the law of the Federal Republic of Germany, or any part of it, or of the Republic of Austria.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 1(ba) inserted (5.1.2009) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 7) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 (S.R. 2008/498), regs. 1(1), 4(4)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 1(c) substituted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Pensions, Social Security and Child Support) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2005 (S.R. 2005/536), art. 1, Sch. 3 para. 30(4)(a) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 1(c) omitted (5.1.2009) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 7) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 (S.R. 2008/498), regs. 1(1), 4(4)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 1(cc) inserted (4.4.2005) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 (S.R. 2005/98), regs. 1(1), 2(8)(a)(9)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 1(cc) added (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending Rule) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 7) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 (S.R. 2008/498), regs. 1(2), 4(4)(a)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 1(cc) substituted (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(2)(c) of the amending Rule) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 4) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 (S.R. 2009/338), reg. 5(5)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 1(cc) substituted (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(2)(c) of the amending Rule) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 4) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 (S.R. 2009/338), reg. 5(5)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 1(cc) substituted (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(2)(c) of the amending Rule) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 4) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 (S.R. 2009/338), reg. 5(5)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 1(d) inserted (4.4.2005) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 (S.R. 2005/98), regs. 1(1), 2(8)(b)(9)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 1(d) substituted (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending Rule) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 7) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 (S.R. 2008/498), regs. 1(2), 4(4)(a)(iv)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 1(e) substituted (4.4.2005) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 (S.R. 2005/98), regs. 1(1), 2(8)(c)(9)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 1 in operation at 6.10.2003, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2017/242",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 3) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2017/62",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Income-related Benefits) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/2023/1218",
      "affecting_title": "The Carer’s Assistance (Carer Support Payment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2023"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/28/schedule/4/paragraph/1",
    "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."
}