{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-scotland-regulations-2018/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-scotland-regulations-2018/regulation-8.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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Pension credit and survivor members",
  "text": "(1) A person is a pension credit member of the Scheme if that person has been given a pension credit in the Scheme as a consequence of a pension debit created under section 29 of the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 in relation to a member of the Scheme.\n(2) A person is a survivor member of the Scheme if that person is entitled to a benefit under regulations 39, 40, 42, 43, 45 or 46 (survivor pensions).",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 8(1) substituted (with effect from 1.6.2018) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/161), regs. 1(2), 2(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1999 c.30."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2018/141/regulation/8",
    "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."
}