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PART 4
State Pension (Contributory) – Long-Term Carer’s Qualifying Contribution and Deferral of State Pension (Contributory)
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Amendment of section 2 of Principal Act
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29. Section 2(1) of the Principal Act is amended—
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(a) by the substitution of the following definition for the definition of “insurable employment”:
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“ ‘insurable employment’ means employment such that—
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(a) a person, over the age of 16 years and under pensionable age, or
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(b) a person born on or after 1 January 1958, who has attained pensionable age but has neither attained the age of 70 years nor been awarded a State pension (contributory),
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employed in that employment would be an employed contributor;”,
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and
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(b) by the insertion of the following definitions:
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“ ‘age referenced rate of State pension (contributory)’ has the meaning given to it by section 108;
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‘long-term carer’s qualifying contribution’ has the meaning given to it by section 108A;”.
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