{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-amendment-regulations-2004/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-amendment-regulations-2004/regulation-18.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/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Power of employing authority to increase total membership",
  "text": "(1) In regulation 52—\n(a) in the heading, delete “of members leaving employment at or after 50”;\n(b) in paragraph (1), for “a member who leaves his employment on or after his 50th birthday” substitute “an active member”;\n(c) for paragraph (2) substitute—\n“(2) A member’s total additional membership (including additional membership in respect of different employments) must not exceed—\n(a) 6 243/365 years;\n(b) the period by which the member’s total membership falls short of 40 years; or\n(c) the period by which the member’s total membership falls short of the total membership the member will have if he continues as an active member until he is 65,\nwhichever is the shortest.”;\n(d) omit paragraphs (3), (4) and (5);\n(e) in paragraph (7), for sub-paragraph (b) substitute—\n“(b) such longer period as the employing authority and the administering authority agree.”; and\n(f) omit paragraph (9).\n(2) Omit regulation 53.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/573/regulation/18",
    "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."
}