{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-transitional-provisions-regulations-2008/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-transitional-provisions-regulations-2008/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/238",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-transitional-provisions-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement, interpretation and application",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Local Government Pension Scheme (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2008.\n(2) These Regulations apply in relation to England and Wales.\n(3) These Regulations shall come into force as follows—\n(a) regulation 8 on 10th March 2008; and\n(b) the remainder on 1st April 2008.\n(4) In these Regulations—\n“the 1997 Regulations” means the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 1997;\n“the 1997 Scheme” means the occupational pension scheme constituted by the 1997 Regulations;\n“the Administration Regulations” means the Local Government Pension Scheme (Administration) Regulations 2008;\n“the Benefits Regulations” means the Local Government Pension Scheme (Benefits, Membership and Contributions) Regulations 2007; and\n“the Scheme” means the Local Government Pension Scheme 2008 constituted by the Benefits Regulations and the Administration Regulations.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 1 in force at 1.4.2008, see reg. 1(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The Secretary of State’s functions under section 7 of the Superannuation Act 1972 in so far as they were exercisable in relation to Scotland were devolved to Scottish Ministers by section 63 of the Scotland Act 1998 (1998 c. 46) and article 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Scotland Act 1998 (Transfer of Functions to Scottish Ministers etc) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1750)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/1612."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2008/239."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 2007/1166."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "uksi/2008/238",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2008"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/2090",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Miscellaneous) Regulations 2010"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/238/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:37:03.919629+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."
}