SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 5Benefits and pensions

Part 2State benefits

Deferment of pensions

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1

The person’s entitlement to—

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a state pension under Part 1 of the Pensions Act 2014,

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a state pension under Part 1 of the Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015,

a

a Category A retirement pension,

b

a Category B retirement pension, or

c

a shared additional pension,

is not to be taken to have been deferred for any period ending before the certificate is issued unless the condition in sub-paragraph (2) is satisfied.

2

The condition is that the entitlement both—

a

was actually deferred during the period, and

b

would have been capable of being so deferred had the person’s gender been the acquired gender.