# The Local Government Pension Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 1998, Regulation 35: Guaranteed minimum pensions etc.

Extent: E+W+S
Status: prospective

(1) Where a member’s local government employment is contracted-out employment and he has a guaranteed minimum in relation to service before 6th April 1997, from the date he attains state pensionable age he is entitled to a pension at a weekly rate equal to not less than that guaranteed minimum.
(2) However, if the member attains state pensionable age while in local government employment, he is not so entitled until he leaves that employment, unless paragraph (3) applies.
(3) If the member–
(a) continues in the same employment for a further period of five years after attaining state pensionable age; and
(b) does not then leave,
he is entitled from the end of that period to so much of his retirement pension as equals that guaranteed minimum (unless he consents to a postponement of the entitlement).
(4) For the purposes of paragraph (1), a person has a guaranteed minimum if he has such a minimum under section 14 of the Pension Schemes Act 1993 in relation to benefits under these Regulations.
(5) A person’s retirement pension is not to be reduced under regulation 30(4) to less than the aggregate of–
(a) any minimum rate of equivalent pension benefits applicable under the Insurance Acts; and
(b) one eightieth of his final pay (expressed as an annual rate) multiplied by the length in years of the whole period of his membership in contracted-out employment during the period beginning with the relevant date and ending with 31st March 1996.
(6) In paragraphs (5) and (7) “the relevant date” means–
(a) in the case of a man, 17th May 1990; and
(b) in the case of a woman, 6th April 1978.
(7) Where a person’s local government employment is or was contracted-out employment, a surrender under regulation 32 (together with any previous surrenders) must not result in the annual rate of the retirement pension being less than one eightieth of his final pay, multiplied by the length in years of the whole period of his membership in contracted-out employment beginning with the relevant date and ending with 31st March 1996.
(8) Where a person making a surrender under regulation 32 has a guaranteed minimum, the surrender (together with any previous surrenders) must not result in the weekly rate of the retirement pension being less than the guaranteed minimum.
(9) Where a person making a surrender under regulation 32–
(a) is in local government employment;
(b) has attained normal retirement age; and
(c) has a total membership of at least two years or has a transfer value credited to him,
references in paragraphs (7) and (8) to the retirement pension are references to the retirement pension which would become payable if he ceased to hold his employment on the day the surrender takes effect.
(10) This regulation overrides any provision in these Regulations to the extent to which it conflicts with it, except–
(a) regulation 48 (commutation: small pensions);
(b) regulation 110 (application of abatement policy in individual cases);
(c) regulation 111 (forfeiture); and
(d) regulation 112 (interim payments direction).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/366/regulation/35 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-scotland-regulations-1998/regulation-35
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