{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-regulations-2015/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-regulations-2015/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/173",
  "legislation_title": "The State Pension Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Paying state pension to persons who are remanded in custody",
  "text": "(1) Where a person is remanded in custody for an offence, regulation 2(1) does not apply unless a sentence described in paragraph (2) is later imposed on the person for the offence.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), the described sentences for the purposes of paragraph (1) are—\n(a) a sentence of imprisonment or detention in legal custody as a result of criminal proceedings;\n(b) a sentence of detention where the provisions mentioned in regulation 2(2)(c)(i) or (d) apply;\n(c) a suspended sentence within the meaning in section 286 of the Sentencing Code (suspended sentences of imprisonment).\n(3) A sentence described in paragraph (2)(a) which is imposed outside Great Britain is not a described sentence for the purposes of paragraph (1) if, in similar circumstances in Great Britain, a sentence described in paragraph (2)(a) would not have been imposed.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(2)(c) substituted (1.12.2020) by Sentencing Act 2020 (c. 17), s. 416(1), Sch. 24 para. 427 (with Sch. 27); S.I. 2020/1236, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/173/regulation/3",
    "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."
}