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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-1997/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1612",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 1997",
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  "path": "regulation/4",
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  "number": "4",
  "heading": "General eligibility for membership: employees of Scheme employers etc.",
  "text": "(1) A person may only be an active member if this regulation, regulation 5 or Chapter I of Part V enables him to be one and he is not prevented by regulation 6.\n(2) A person may be a member if he is employed by a Scheme employer.\n(3) A Scheme employer is a body which is listed in Schedule 2 or is a resolution body.\n(4) But a person who is employed by a resolution body may only be a member if he is covered by a relevant resolution.\n(5) A relevant resolution is a statutory resolution by a resolution body stating that a specified employee or a class of employees to which he belongs may be a member.\n(6) These are resolution bodies—\n(a) the Board of Governors of the Museum of London;\n(b) any other body which is a precepting authority, a levying body or a section 75 body;\n(c) a passenger transport executive;\n(d) a designated institution which immediately before designation was assisted or maintained by a local education authority;\n(e) the governing body of a grant-maintained school or a grant-maintained special school (other than a school within Schedule 2);\n(f) a company under the control of a body listed in that Schedule.",
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  "version": "current",
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      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2001"
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      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 1999"
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      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Greater London Authority etc.) Regulations 2000"
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      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Greater London Authority etc.) Regulations 2000"
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    {
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      "affecting": "uksi/2004/573",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2004"
    },
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      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2004"
    },
    {
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      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2007"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2006/1011",
      "affecting_title": "The Public Services Ombudsman (Wales) Act 2005 (Consequential Amendments to the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 1997 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2006"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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