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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-scotland-regulations-2018/regulation-79",
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  "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/79",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "79",
  "heading": "Non-assignability",
  "text": "(1) Every benefit to which a person is entitled under the Scheme is payable to or in trust for that person.\n(2) No such benefit may be assigned or charged and any such assignation or charge is void.\n(3) On the bankruptcy of a person entitled to a benefit under the Scheme no part of the benefit passes to any trustee or other person acting on behalf of the creditors, except in accordance with a debtor contribution order fixed by the Accountant in Bankruptcy under section 90(1) of the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 2016 or varied by a debtor's trustee under section 95(1) of that Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "2016 asp 21."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2018/141/regulation/79",
    "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."
}