{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1958/section-60",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1958/section-60.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/6-7/55",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government Act 1958",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1958",
  "path": "section/60",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "60",
  "heading": "Transfer and compensation of officers.",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) Provision shall be made, by regulations made by such Minister as may be determined by the Treasury to be appropriate in relation to the persons to whom the regulations relate, for the payment by such authority as may be prescribed by or determined under the regulations, or, in a case to which paragraph 2 of Schedule 3 to the Children and Young Persons Act 1969 applies, by the Secretary of State but subject to such exceptions or conditions as may be so prescribed, of compensation to or in respect of persons who are, or who but for any national service of theirs would be, the holders of any such place, situation or employment as may be so prescribed and who suffer loss of employment or loss or diminution of emoluments which is attributable to the provisions of any such order or scheme as is mentioned in subsection (1) of this section or of any scheme or order under sections forty-three to forty-five, or Part VI, of the Act of 1933 or of any order under Part I of the Police Act 1964or section 32 of the Police Act 1996or of an order under section 46 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969or of section 2 or 6 of the Local Authority Social Services Act 1970; and so much of section one hundred and fifty of the Act of 1933 as provides for compensation shall not apply to any scheme or order under the said Part VI, but without prejudice to any instrument to which it is applied by any other enactment.\n(3) Regulations under the foregoing subsection may include provision as to the manner in which and the person to whom any claim for compensation under this section is to be made, and for the determination of all questions arising under the regulations.\n(4) In this section—\nexisting officer, in relation to an order or scheme, means an officer serving on such date or dates as may be specified in the order or scheme in relation to him;\nnational service means any such service in any of Her Majesty’s forces or other employment (whether or not in the service of Her Majesty) as may be prescribed by regulations under this section;\nofficer includes the holder of any place, situation or employment.\n(5) Any regulations under this section shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 57–59, 60(1), 65 repealed by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch. 30"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words inserted by Children and Young Persons Act 1969 (c. 54), s. 46(2), Sch. 3 para. 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words inserted by Police Act 1964 (c. 48), Sch. 9"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 60(2) inserted (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 16, ss. 103, 104(1), Sch. 7 Pt. II para. 12"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words inserted by Local Authority Social Services Act 1970 (c. 42), Sch. 2 para. 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words substituted by Police Act 1964 (c. 48), Sch. 9"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1969 c. 54."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1964 c. 48."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1970 c. 42."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 60(2) applied by Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964 (c. 75), s. 11(2); extended by Police Act 1964 (c. 48), s. 58(4), Local Authority Social Services Act 1970 (c. 42), s. 9(2)(3) and Pensions Increase Act 1971 (c. 56), s. 5(1), Sch. 2 paras. 23(b), 52, 55"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Functions of the Treasury under s. 60(2) now exercisable by the Minister for the Civil Service: S.I. 1968/1656"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/6-7/55/section/60",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:12:43.690498+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."
}