Part II Contributory Benefits
Retirement pensions (Categories A and B)
F148CCategory B retirement pension: general.
(1)
Subject to the provisions of this Act, a person’s entitlement to a Category B retirement pension shall begin on the day on which the conditions of entitlement become satisfied and shall continue for life.
(2)
In any case where—
(a)
a person would, apart from section 43(1) above, be entitled both to a Category A and to a Category B retirement pension, and
(b)
section 47(1) above would apply for the increase of the Category A retirement pension,
section 47(1) above shall be taken as applying also for the increase of the Category B retirement pension, subject to reduction or extinguishment of the increase by the application of section 47(2) above or section 46(5) of the Pensions Act.