{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-2013/schedule-3/part-1/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-2013/schedule-3/part-1/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/2356",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-2013",
  "path": "schedule/3/part/1/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The following bodies are required to maintain a pension fund and are administering authorities for the purposes of these Regulations—\n(a) a county council in England;\n(b) a London borough council;\n(c) the Corporation of London;\n(d) Bath and North East Somerset Council;\n(e) Bedford Borough Council;\n(f) City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council;\n(g) Cheshire West and Chester Borough Council;\n(h) East Riding of Yorkshire Council;\n(i) Middlesborough Borough Council;\n(j) South Tyneside Borough Council;\n(k) Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council;\n(l) Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Council;\n(m) Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council;\n(n) Wolverhampton City Council;\n(o) the South Yorkshire Pension Authority;\n(p) the Environment Agency;\n(q) the London Pensions Fund Authority;\n(r) Flintshire County Council;\n(s) Carmarthenshire County Council;\n(t) County Council of the City and County of Cardiff;\n(u) City and County of Swansea Council;\n(v) Gwynedd Council;\n(w) Powys County Council;\n(x) Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council;\n(y) Torfaen County Borough Council;\n(z) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(za) Dorset Council.\n(zb) Buckinghamshire Council.\n(zc) West Northamptonshire Council.\n(zd) Westmorland and Furness Council.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 3 Pt. 1 para. 1(g) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(b) of the amending S.I.) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/755), regs. 1(2), 31(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 3 Pt. 1 para. 1(j) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(b) of the amending S.I.) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/755), regs. 1(2), 31(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 3 Pt. 1 para. 1(k) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(b) of the amending S.I.) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/755), regs. 1(2), 31(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 3 Pt. 1 para. 1(m) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(b) of the amending S.I.) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/755), regs. 1(2), 31(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Sch. 3 Pt. 1 para. 1(t) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(b) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/755), regs. 1(2), 31(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 3 Pt. 1 para. 1(u) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(b) of the amending S.I.) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/755), regs. 1(2), 31(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Sch. 3 Pt. 1 para. 1(z) omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Local Government Pension Scheme (West Midlands Integrated Transport Authority Pension Fund and West Midlands Pension Fund Merger) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1351), regs. 1(2), 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Sch. 3 Pt. 1 para. 1(za) inserted (1.4.2019) by The Local Government (Structural and Boundary Changes) (Supplementary Provision and Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/615), arts. 1, 7(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Sch. 3 Pt. 1 para. 1(zb) inserted (1.4.2020) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Buckinghamshire Structural Changes) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/123), regs. 1(2), 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Sch. 3 Pt. 1 para. 1(zc) added (1.4.2021) by The Northamptonshire (Structural Changes) (Supplementary Provision and Amendment) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/272), arts. 1, 5(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Sch. 3 Pt. 1 para. 1(zd) inserted (1.4.2023) by The Local Government (Structural Changes) (Supplementary Provision and Amendment) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/187), arts. 1, 4(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2026/1011",
      "affecting_title": "The Surrey (Structural Changes) (Pensions etc.) Order 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/2356/schedule/3/part/1/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:40:57.304771+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."
}