{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-and-pensions-act-1999/schedule-9/paragraph-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-and-pensions-act-1999/schedule-9/paragraph-9.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1999/30",
  "legislation_title": "Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-and-pensions-act-1999",
  "path": "schedule/9/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 162 of the Administration Act is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (5)—\n(a) in paragraph (a), for “the lower earnings limit” substitute “ the primary threshold ”; and\n(b) in paragraph (b), before “earnings” insert “ total ”.\n(3) In subsection (6A)—\n(a) for “the lower or upper earnings limit” substitute “ the primary threshold or the upper earnings limit ”; and\n(b) for “that limit prescribed under section 8(3)” substitute “ that threshold or limit prescribed under section 5(4) ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 9 para. 9 wholly in force at 6.4.2000; Sch. 9 para. 9 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 89(3); Sch. 9 para. 9 in force for certain purposes at 22.12.1999 and for all other purposes at 6.4.2000 by S.I. 1999/3420, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2007/22",
      "affecting_title": "Pensions Act 2007"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1999/30/schedule/9/paragraph/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:21:37.576921+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."
}