{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-regulations-2015/regulation-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-regulations-2015/regulation-13.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/173",
  "legislation_title": "The State Pension Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Minimum number of qualifying years",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of section 2(3) of the 2014 Act (entitlement to state pension at full or reduced rate), the minimum number of qualifying years for a state pension payable at the reduced rate is ten.\n(2) For the purposes of section 4(2) of the 2014 Act (entitlement to a state pension at transitional rate), the minimum number of qualifying years for a state pension payable at the transitional rate is ten.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "See section 2(4) of the Pensions Act 2014 for the definition of “qualifying year”."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Reg. 13 excluded (6.4.2016) by The Transfer of State Pensions and Benefits Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/1398), reg. 2(4) (as inserted by S.I. 2015/1985, arts. 1(2)(b), 30(3))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/173/regulation/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:48:30.301367+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."
}