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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-scotland-regulations-1998/regulation-114",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/366",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-scotland-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/114",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "114",
  "heading": "Protection of guaranteed minimum pension rights",
  "text": "(1) The power–\n(a) to give directions under regulation 111(2); or\n(b) or to recover or retain amounts under regulation 113(2)\nmay not be exercised so as to deprive a person of his guaranteed minimum pension or any widow’s or widower’s guaranteed minimum pension.\n(2) However, such a power may be so exercised if the person left his employment–\n(a) because of the offence of treason; or\n(b) because of one or more offences under the Official Secrets Acts 1911 to 1989 for which the former member has been sentenced on the same occasion–\n(i) to a term of imprisonment of at least 10 years, or\n(ii) to two or more consecutive terms amounting in aggregate to at least 10 years.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 114 in force at 1.4.1998, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/366",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 1998"
    },
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "ssi/2005/554",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pensions Etc. (Civil Partnership) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2005"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/366/regulation/114",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:37:18.437535+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."
}