{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-compensation-regulations-1975/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1975/353",
  "legislation_title": "The Coroners (Compensation) Regulations 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-compensation-regulations-1975",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“accrued pension” has the meaning given by regulation 18(3);\n“the Act” means the Local Government Act 1972;\n“the Act of 1926” means the Coroners (Amendment) Act 1926;\n“compensating authority” means the local authority last paying emoluments prior to their loss or diminution or, if that authority has ceased to exist, the authority to whom the residue of its property and liabilities has been transferred under the Act;\n“compensation question” means a question arising under these Regulations—\n(a) as to a person's entitlement to compensation for loss of employment, or for loss or diminution of emoluments; or\n(b) as to the manner of a person's employment or the comparability of his duties;\n“coroner” does not include a deputy or assistant deputy coroner;\n“emoluments” and “annual rate of emoluments” have the meanings given by Regulation 35;\n“enactment” means any Act or any instrument made under an Act;\n“instrument” means an Order in Council, regulation, order, rule, scheme, direction or agreement;\n“long-term compensation” means compensation payable in accordance with the provisions of Part IV of these Regulations for loss of employment or loss or diminution of emoluments;\n“material date” means—\n(a) in relation to a person who has suffered loss of employment or loss or diminution of emoluments in consequence of a provision of the Act, 1st April 1974 or (except in Regulations 7(1)(a) and 11(1)(a)) the date on which the loss or diminution occurred, if that was earlier;\n(b) in relation to a person who has suffered any such loss or diminution in consequence of an instrument made under the Act, the date on which the instrument was made or (if some other date is specified therein) that other date;\n“pensionable officer” has the meaning given by Regulation 18(1);\n“pension scheme” means any form of arrangement associated with employment for the payment of superannuation benefits, whether subsisting by virtue of any enactment, trust, contract or otherwise;\n“reckonable service” means any period of service as a coroner;\n“resettlement compensation” means compensation payable in accordance with Part III of these Regulations for loss of employment;\n“retirement compensation” means compensation payable in accordance with the provisions of Regulation 19, 20, 21 or 22;\n“tribunal” means a tribunal established under section 12 of the Industrial Training Act 1964.\n(2) References in these Regulations to employment, or to loss or diminution of emoluments, shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be to employment in the office of coroner, or to loss or diminution of emoluments as coroner.\n(3) Where under any provision of these Regulations an annual value is to be assigned to a capital sum or a capital value to an annual amount, the annual or capital value shall be calculated by the Government Actuary.\n(4) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, references to any enactment shall be construed as references thereto as amended, re-enacted, applied or modified by any subsequent enactment.\n(5) References in these Regulations to a numbered regulation or Schedule shall, unless the reference is to a regulation or a Schedule of specified regulations, be construed as references to the regulation or Schedule bearing that number in these Regulations.\n(6) References in any of these Regulations to a numbered paragraph shall, unless the reference is to a paragraph of a specified regulation, be construed as references to the paragraph bearing that number in the first mentioned regulation.\n(7) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply for the interpretation of these Regulations as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/867",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Changes for England Regulations 1994"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1975/353/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:14:44.445942+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}