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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-scotland-regulations-1998/regulation-2",
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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/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 1 contains definitions of expressions used in these Regulations which apply for their interpretation unless the context indicates that they have a different meaning.\n(2) Unless that is so, references to members and membership generally refer to active members and active membership respectively and, in relation to any time before the commencement date, refer to pensionable employees and reckonable service under the 1987 Regulations.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 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": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2001/23",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Pension Sharing on Divorce) (Scotland) Regulations 2001"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/366/regulation/2",
    "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."
}