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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-scotland-amendment-regulations-2000/regulation-40",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2000/199",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-scotland-amendment-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/40",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "First instance decisions",
  "text": "In regulation 96–\n(a) in paragraph (3), for “the employment ends” substitute “the earlier of the date the employment ends or the date specified in the notification mentioned in regulation 7(3)”;\n(b) in paragraph (9), after “independent registered medical practitioner” insert “who is qualified in occupational health medicine”;\n(c) in paragraph (10), for “that authority’s approval” substitute “the approval of the appropriate administering authority to their choice of registered medical practitioner”; and\n(d) after paragraph (13), add as a new paragraph–\n“(14) In paragraph (9)–\n(a) “permanently incapable” has the meaning given by regulation 26(5); and\n(b) “qualified in occupational health medicine” means holding a diploma in occupational medicine (D Occ Med) or an equivalent qualification issued by a competent authority in a EEA State (which has the meaning given by the European Specialist Medical Qualification Order 1995), or being an Associate, a Member, or a Fellow of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine or an equivalent institution of an EEA State.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/3208, amended by S.I. 1997/2928."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2000/199/regulation/40",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:50:23.442507+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."
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