{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-1997/regulation-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-1997/regulation-26.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1612",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/26",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Redundancy etc.",
  "text": "(1) If—\n(a) a member who is aged 50 or more retires from a local government employment; and\n(b) his employing authority certify the reason for his retirement was his redundancy,\nhe is entitled to a pension and retirement grant.\n(2) The pension and grant are payable immediately.\n(3) But a person who is notified under regulation 15 of the Local Government (Compensation for Redundancy) Regulations 1994 about compensation due because regulation 9 of those Regulations applies to his retirement may waive his right to immediate payment by notice in writing to his employing authority.\n(4) In paragraph (1) “redundancy” includes retirement in the interests of efficiency, or because the member held a joint appointment which has been ended because the other holder has left it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1994/3025; amended by S.I. 1996/456."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/1410",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government (Early Termination of Employment) (Discretionary Compensation)(England and Wales) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/1410",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government (Early Termination of Employment) (Discretionary Compensation)(England and Wales) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "word substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/3372",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "restored",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/1903",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2005"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1612/regulation/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:06:30.691853+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."
}