{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-governance-scotland-regulations-2015/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-governance-scotland-regulations-2015/note.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2015/60",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Governance) (Scotland) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-governance-scotland-regulations-2015",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations include provisions relating to the establishment of a Scheme Advisory Board and pension boards for the purposes of the Local Government Pension Scheme.\nRegulation 2 establishes the Scheme Advisory Board whose main functions are (a) to provide advice to the Scottish Ministers on the desirability of changes to the Scheme; and (b) to provide advice to the scheme managers or the Scheme’s pension boards.\nRegulation 3 provides for the constitution of the Scheme Advisory Board, providing that it must have equal representation on it of 7 scheme employer and 7 relevant trade union representatives chosen by their respective organisations.\nRegulation 4 provides against conflicts of interest of members of the Scheme Advisory Board.\nRegulation 5 provides for the establishment for each scheme manager of a Pension Board with responsibility for assisting the scheme manager.\nRegulation 6 provides for the constitution of pension boards, again with equal representation of Scheme employers and relevant Trade Unions.\nRegulation 7 provides against conflicts of interest of members of pension boards.\nRegulation 8 sets out the remit of pension boards.\nRegulation 9 provides for a process of review in case of a disagreement on certain matters between a Pension Board and a Pension Committee.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2015/60/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:31:07.293719+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."
}