{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-compensation-regulations-1948/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-compensation-regulations-1948/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1948/1458",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government (Compensation) Regulations 1948",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-compensation-regulations-1948",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Any compensation to which an officer becomes entitled under these regulations shall be paid by the compensating authority and shall be payable to, or in trust for, the person who is entitled to receive it, and shall not be assignable.\n(2) Any sum payable as compensation to a person by a local authority shall be recoverable as a debt due from the authority.\n(3) Where the compensating authority is a rating authority represented on a joint committee of rating authorities or is a rating authority whose rating area is included in an assessment area consisting of more than one rating area, the other rating authorities concerned shall contribute towards the payment of any compensation payable by the compensating authority in proportion to the rateable values of their rating areas on the 31st day of March, 1948.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1948/1458/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T02:49:13.889294+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."
}