{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-and-pensions-act-1999/section-47",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-and-pensions-act-1999/section-47.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": "section/47",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "47",
  "heading": "Shareable state scheme rights.",
  "text": "(1) Pension sharing is available under this Chapter in relation to a person’s shareable state scheme rights.\n(1A) For the purposes of this Chapter, a person's shareable state scheme rights are—\n(a) the person's shareable old state scheme rights;\n(b) the person's shareable new state scheme rights.\n(2) For the purposes of this Chapter, a person’s shareable old state scheme rights are—\n(a) his entitlement, or prospective entitlement, to a Category A retirement pension by virtue of section 44(3)(b) of the Contributions and Benefits Act (... additional pension), and\n(b) his entitlement, or prospective entitlement, to a pension under section 55A or 55AA of that Act (shared additional pension).\n(3) For the purposes of this Chapter, a person's shareable new state scheme rights are the person's entitlement, or prospective entitlement, to the excess amount in a state pension under section 4 of the Pensions Act 2014.\n(4) “The excess amount”, in relation to a state pension under section 4 of the Pensions Act 2014, means any amount by which the rate of the pension exceeds the full rate of the state pension (see section 3 of that Act).\n(5) In determining the rate of a state pension under section 4 of the Pensions Act 2014 for the purposes of this Chapter, ignore Schedule 6 to that Act (reduced rate elections: effect on rate of section 4 pension).",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 47(1A) inserted (6.4.2016 unless brought into force earlier by an order under s. 56(1) of the amending Act) by Pensions Act 2014 (c. 19), s. 56(4), Sch. 11 para. 10(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in s. 47(2) inserted (6.4.2016 unless brought into force earlier by an order under s. 56(1) of the amending Act) by Pensions Act 2014 (c. 19), s. 56(4), Sch. 11 para. 10(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 47(2)(a) omitted (12.10.2015) by virtue of Pensions Act 2014 (c. 19), s. 56(1), Sch. 15 para. 14; S.I. 2015/1475, art. 3(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 47(2)(b) inserted (6.4.2016 unless brought into force earlier by an order under s. 56(1) of the amending Act) by Pensions Act 2014 (c. 19), s. 56(4), Sch. 11 para. 10(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 47(3)-(5) inserted (6.4.2016 unless brought into force earlier by an order under s. 56(1) of the amending Act) by Pensions Act 2014 (c. 19), s. 56(4), Sch. 11 para. 10(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Pt. IV Ch. II modified (6.4.2016) by The Social Security (Northern Ireland Reciprocal Arrangements) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/287), regs. 1, 2(2)(e)(ii), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 47 wholly in force at 1.12.2000; s. 47 in force for certain purposes at Royal Assent see s. 89(1); s. 47 in force at 1.12.2000 insofar as not already in force by S.I. 2000/1047, art. 2(2)(d), Sch. Pt. IV"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1999/30/section/47",
    "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."
}