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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-scotland-regulations-1998/regulation-43",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-scotland-regulations-1998/regulation-43.json",
  "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/43",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "43",
  "heading": "Meaning of “eligible child”",
  "text": "(1) The eligible child of a deceased member is–\n(a) a child of the deceased’s marriage or his adopted child; or\n(b) a child who was wholly or mainly dependent on the deceased at the time of his death.\n(2) A person counts as a child only if–\n(a) he is aged under 17;\n(b) since he became 17 he has been engaged continuously in full-time education or in training for a trade, profession or vocation; or\n(c) he is physically or mentally incapacitated and became so whilst a child within sub-paragraph (a) or (b).\n(3) If an appropriate administering authority wish, they may treat education or training as continuous despite a break.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 43 in force at 1.4.1998, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "ssi/2006/468",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/366",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 1998"
    },
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "ssi/2005/293",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2005"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/366/regulation/43",
    "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."
}