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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-1997/regulation-35",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-1997/regulation-35.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/35",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "35",
  "heading": "Requirements as to time of payment",
  "text": "(1) Retirement benefits under this Chapter may not be paid to a person before he has retired from the employment in which he was a member.\n(2) But they must begin to be paid not later than the member's 75th birthday even if he has not retired (and see also regulation 36(3)).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/2008",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/966",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/966",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2006"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1612/regulation/35",
    "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."
}