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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-scotland-amendment-regulations-2005/regulation-48",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2005/293",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-scotland-amendment-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/48",
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  "number": "48",
  "heading": "Transitional provisions",
  "text": "(1) Nothing in regulations 8 and 10 will affect the amount of pay or final pay determined in accordance with an agreement made under regulation 12(5) of the principal Regulations prior to 30th June 2005.\n(2) This paragraph applies to a member, who was a re-employed pensioner member on 30th June 2005, where the member–\n(a) has written to the appropriate administering authority within six months of that date to elect that the amendments in these Regulations in relation to regulations 28, 29 and 47 of the principal Regulations do not apply to them; and\n(b) has remained in the same employment, unless subject to a transfer, from that date until he or she retired or died.\n(3) Nothing in these Regulations shall prevent a member to whom paragraph (2) applies from electing for a single pension in accordance with regulations 28 and 29 of the principal Regulations.\n(4) Nothing in the Regulations shall affect the calculation of benefits under regulation 47 of the principal Regulations in respect of a member to whom paragraph (2) applies.\n(5) Nothing in these Regulations shall prevent an authority from being obliged to make payments to another authority in accordance with regulation 127 of the principal Regulations (liability for combined benefits), or, in the case of an overdue payment, to pay interest under regulation 81 of the principal Regulations.\n(6) Nothing in these Regulations shall affect any admission agreement made in accordance with the principal Regulations before the date on which these Regulations came into force and so far as it is necessary to give effect to any such agreement, the principal Regulations shall be treated as if they had continued in effect without the amendments made by these Regulations.\n(7) So far as it is necessary to give effect to the entitlements in this regulation and to make provision for any matters incidental to them, the principal Regulations shall be treated as if they had continued in effect without the amendments made by these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2005/293/regulation/48",
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  "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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