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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/regulation-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/regulation-27.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2015/315",
  "legislation_title": "The State Pension Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-regulations-northern-ireland-2015",
  "path": "regulation/27",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Credits for parents and carers",
  "text": "A person is to be credited with a Class 3 contribution to which the person would have been entitled under section 23A of the Contributions and Benefits Act (contributions credits for relevant parents and carers) or regulations made under that section, for the purposes of entitlement to a Category A retirement pension had—\n(a) the amendment made by paragraph 47 of Schedule 12 to the Act not come into operation; and\n(b) the person attained pensionable age on 6th April 2016.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 8 added (6.4.2016) by The State Pension (Amendment No. 3) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/100), regs. 1, 2(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/315/regulation/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:00:30.654806+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."
}