{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-administration-regulations-2008/regulation-77",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-administration-regulations-2008/regulation-77.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/239",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Administration) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-administration-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/77",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "77",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Part",
  "text": "In this Part—\n“the 1993 Act” means the Pension Schemes Act 1993;\n“Chapters 4 and 5” means Chapters 4 and 5 of Part 4 of that Act (transfer values and early leavers);\n“club scheme” means an occupational pension scheme which—\n(a) (except where it is established and maintained in the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man) is a registered scheme;\n(b) provides benefits calculated by reference to final pay;\n(c) is open to new participants, or is a closed scheme the trustees or managers of which also provide an open scheme which is a club scheme for new employees of the same employer and of the same grade or level of post as the participants in the closed scheme; and\n(d) complies with reciprocal arrangements for the payment and receipt of transfer values with the schemes made under section 7 of the Superannuation Act 1972.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 77 in force at 1.4.2008, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1993 c.48; Part 5 was inserted by the Pensions Act 2004 (c.35), section 264."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c.11."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "uksi/2008/239",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Administration) Regulations 2008"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/239/regulation/77",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:37:03.256641+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."
}