Pensions Act 2014

20Overseas residentsE+W+S

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(1)Regulations may provide that an overseas resident who is entitled to a state pension under this Part is not entitled to up-rating increases.

(2)In this section “overseas resident” means a person who is not ordinarily resident in Great Britain or any other territory specified in the regulations.

(3)Regulations under this section do not affect the rate of an overseas resident's state pension for any period during which he or she is in Great Britain or a territory specified in the regulations (but once the overseas resident ceases to be in Great Britain or a specified territory the rate reverts to what it would have been had he or she not been in Great Britain or a specified territory).

(4)Regulations under this section do not affect the rate of a person's state pension once the person stops being an overseas resident.

Commencement Information

I1S. 20 in force at 23.2.2016 for specified purposes by S.I. 2016/203, art. 2(d)

I2S. 20 in force at 6.4.2016 in so far as not already in force, see s. 56(1)(4)