{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-scotland-regulations-2018/regulation-58",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-scotland-regulations-2018/regulation-58.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2018/141",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-scotland-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/58",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "58",
  "heading": "Statements of policy about exercise of discretionary functions",
  "text": "(1) A Scheme employer must prepare a written statement of its policy in relation to the exercise of its functions under regulations—\n(a) 16(2)(e) and 16(4)(d) (funding of additional pension);\n(b) 29(7) (flexible retirement);\n(c) 29(9) (waiving of actuarial reduction); and\n(d) 30 (award of additional pension),\nand an administering authority must prepare such a statement in relation to the exercise of its functions under regulation 29(9) in cases where a former employer has ceased to be a Scheme employer.\n(2) Each Scheme employer must send a copy of its statement to each relevant administering authority before 1st July 2015 and must publish its statement.\n(3) A body required to prepare a statement under paragraph (1) must—\n(a) keep its statement under review; and\n(b) make such revisions as are appropriate following a change in its policy.\n(4) Before the expiry of a month beginning with the date any such revisions are made, each Scheme employer must send a copy of its revised statement to each relevant administering authority, and must publish its statement as revised.\n(5) In preparing, or reviewing and making revisions to its statement, a body required to prepare a statement under paragraph (1) must have regard to the extent to which the exercise of the functions mentioned in paragraph (1) in accordance with its policy could lead to a serious loss of confidence in the public service.\n(6) In this regulation a relevant administering authority, in relation to a Scheme employer, is any authority which is an appropriate administering authority for that employer's employees.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2018/141/regulation/58",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:12:56.289150+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."
}