(1) Subject to this Act, a person who has attained the age of 65 years shall be entitled to State pension (transition) for any period of retirement where he or she satisfies the contribution conditions in section 115.
(2) The periods which shall be regarded for the purposes of this section as periods of retirement shall be specified by regulations.
(3) In this Chapter -
"yearly average" means, in relation to any claimant, the average per contribution year of contribution weeks in respect of which that claimant has qualifying contributions, voluntary contributions or credited contributions in the period beginning either - (a) on 5 January 1953 in case the claimant is a man, or on 6 July 1953 in case the claimant is a woman, or (b) at the beginning of the contribution year in which the claimant's entry into insurance occurred (where after 5 January 1953 in the case of a man, or 6 July 1953 in the case of a woman), (whichever is the later) and ending at the end of the last co
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