{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/iron-and-steel-compensation-to-employees-regulations-1968/regulation-20",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1968/1170",
  "legislation_title": "The Iron and Steel (Compensation to Employees) Regulations 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/iron-and-steel-compensation-to-employees-regulations-1968",
  "path": "regulation/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Premature retirement compensation",
  "text": "(1) A person to whom retirement compensation will be payable pursuant to regulations 16 and 18 on his reaching normal retiring age (if he does not elect to take it earlier under this or the preceding regulation) by reason of his having lost employment as a pensionable officer, if at the date of the loss he had reached 50 years of age, may, before reaching normal retiring age and by notice in writing to the Corporation, claim to be paid retirement compensation assessed in accordance with this regulation, such retirement compensation as from the date on which it is payable to be in lieu of all compensation payable as from that date under these regulations other than resettlement compensation.\n(2) No claim under this regulation shall be entertained if the claimant has also claimed long-term compensation and the claim under this regulation is made more than 2 years after the determination of the claim for long-term compensation or after any review of that determination.\n(3) For the purpose of determining the retirement compensation payable to a person claiming under this regulation, regulation 18 shall apply as it applies to a person who has reached normal retiring age, but subject to the omission of (d) of regulation 18(2).\n(4) Paragraphs (3), (5) and (6) of regulation 19 shall apply in relation to a claim made under this regulation as they apply in relation to a claim made under regulation 19.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1968/1170/regulation/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T23:21:37.705336+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."
}