{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-amendment-regulations-2004/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-amendment-regulations-2004/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/573",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-amendment-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement, interpretation and extent",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2004.\n(2) Regulations 1 to 26 and 33 to 43 shall come into force on 1st April 2004 and regulations 27 to 32 shall come into force on 1st June 2004.\n(3) In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations” means the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 1997.\n(4) These Regulations extend 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. 1998/1238; 1999/1212; 2000/1164, 1410, 3025; 2001/770, 1481, 3401; 2002/819 and 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 Scottish Ministers etc) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1750)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/573/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:30:57.201683+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."
}