{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-amendment-regulations-2003/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-amendment-regulations-2003/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/2249",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-amendment-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and extent",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2003.\n(2) These Regulations shall come into force on 1st October 2003, but regulation 2 shall have effect from 8th December 2002.\n(3) In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations” means the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 1997.\n(4) These Regulations extend only to England and Wales.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/1612; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2001/1481, 2003/1022."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The Secretary of State’s functions under section 7 of the Superannuation Act 1972 in so far as they were exercisable in relation to Scotland were devolved to Scottish Ministers by section 63 of the Scotland Act 1998 (1998 c. 46) and article 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Scotland Act 1998 (Transfer of Functions to the Scottish Ministers etc.) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1750)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/2249/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:00:33.100713+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."
}