Disqualification from benefit while absent from State or undergoing imprisonment, etc.
1. [delete]
Miscellaneous amendments.
2. [delete]
Old age (contributory) and retirement pension - extension of entitlement to reduced rate pension and changes in contribution conditions.
(1) This Act is amended -
(a) in section 109, by substituting the following for subsection (16):
(a) Subject to paragraph (b), regulations may provide for entitling to State pension (contributory) a relevant person who would be entitled but for the fact that the contribution conditions set out in subsection (1) (b) and (c) are not satisfied and who, in respect of any period, has been employed mainly in one or more of the employments in respect of which employment contributions at the rate specified in Article 81(2) (a), 82(2) (a) or 83(2) (a) of the Regulations of 1996 were paid.
(b) For the purposes of paragraph (a) the claimant is required to have qualifying contributions in respect of not
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