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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/schedule-6/paragraph-4A",
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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/6/paragraph/4A",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4A",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) £20 is the maximum amount which may be disregarded under any of paragraphs 1, 2, 3 or 4 notwithstanding that –\n(a) in the case of a claimant with no partner, he satisfies the requirements of more than one of those paragraphs or, in the case of paragraph 4, he satisfies the requirements of more than one of the sub-paragraphs of that paragraph, or\n(b) in the case of couples, both partners satisfy one or more of the requirements of paragraphs 2, 3 and 4.\n(2) Where, in a case to which sub-paragraph (1)(b) applies, the amount to be disregarded in respect of one of the partners (“the first partner”) is less than £20, the amount to be disregarded in respect of the other partner shall be so much of that other partner’s earnings as would not, in aggregate with the first partner’s earnings, exceed £20.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 4A inserted (6.10.2003) by The State Pension Credit (Consequential, Transitional and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 (S.R. 2003/191), regs. 1(2)(b), 23(10)(b) (with regs. 34-36)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 6 para. 4A(1)(b) 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(6) (with art. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "word omitted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2016/228",
      "affecting_title": "The Personal Independence Payment (Supplementary Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "nisr/2016/228",
      "affecting_title": "The Personal Independence Payment (Supplementary Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2017/1",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit and State Pension Credit (Temporary Absence) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2017/1",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit and State Pension Credit (Temporary Absence) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017"
    },
    {
      "type": "Sch. 6 para. 4(1)(a)(viii) renumbered as Sch. 6 para. 4(1)(a)(viia)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2022/530",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Disability Assistance for Working Age People) (Consequential Amendments) (No. 2) Order 2022"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2022/177",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Disability Assistance for Working Age People) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2022"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2024/919",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2024"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2025/227",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2025"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/28/schedule/6/paragraph/4A",
    "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."
}