{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-superannuation-regulations-1986/regulation-E29",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1986/24",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Superannuation Regulations 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-superannuation-regulations-1986",
  "path": "regulation/E29",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "E29",
  "heading": "Disregard of certain reckonable service in calculating amount of benefits",
  "text": "(1) For the purpose of calculating the amount of any benefit under regulation E3—\n(a) subject to paragraphs (2) to (4), no account shall be taken of reckonable service before attaining the age of 60 years beyond a total of 40 years, and\n(b) where an amount is recovered or retained under regulation M3 (monetary obligation arising out of crime etc), reckonable service shall be left out of account to the extent necessary to reduce the actuarial value referred to in regulation M3(2)(b) by that amount.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(a), a period which a person is entitled to reckon as reckonable service by virtue of regulation E3(12) (permanent ill health) or F6(1)(a) or (b) (war service) shall be treated as reckonable service before attaining the age of 60 years.\n(3) Where a retiring allowance falls to be reduced under regulation E3(7) or (8) (potential widow's pensions), any reckonable service to be left out of account by virtue of paragraph (1)(a) shall be taken from the beginning of the person's reckonable service.\n(4) Where a retiring allowance falls to be increased under regulation E3(4) (preservation of certain rights under former regulations), any reckonable service to be left out of account by virtue of paragraph (1)(a) shall be taken from the end of the person's reckonable service.\n(5) Where A + B + C exceeds 45 years, for the purpose of calculating any benefit A is reduced by a period equal to the excess.\n(6) In paragraph (5)—\nA is the total length of the periods reckonable as reckonable service in relation to the relevant employment, excluding any service which is to be left out of account by virtue of paragraph (1)(a),\nB is the length of any earlier period which was taken into account in the calculation of a retirement pension, an annual pension under the former regulations, or a superannuation allowance under Part I of the Act of 1937, or in respect of which any pension was granted under a local Act scheme, and\nC is the length of any period by reference to which an additional benefit has been granted under regulation E13 or under regulation 13 of the Benefits regulations.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. E29 in force at 1.3.1986, see reg. A1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1992/172",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Amendment) Regulations 1992"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1989/371",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Amendment) Regulations 1989"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1989/371",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Amendment) Regulations 1989"
    },
    {
      "type": "replaced",
      "affecting": "uksi/1989/371",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Amendment) Regulations 1989"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/900",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Limitation on Earnings and Reckonable Service) Regulations 1995"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/900",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Limitation on Earnings and Reckonable Service) Regulations 1995"
    },
    {
      "type": "replaced",
      "affecting": "uksi/1987/293",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 1987"
    },
    {
      "type": "modified",
      "affecting": "uksi/1987/293",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 1987"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1987/293",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 1987"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1988/466",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government (Superannuation and Compensation) (Amendment) Regulations 1988"
    },
    {
      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "uksi/1989/1462",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Water) Regulations 1989"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1989/1462",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Water) Regulations 1989"
    },
    {
      "type": "excluded",
      "affecting": "uksi/1989/1462",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Water) Regulations 1989"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1990/1709",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Amendment)Regulations 1990"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1990/503",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Funds etc.) Regulations 1990"
    },
    {
      "type": "replaced",
      "affecting": "uksi/1990/503",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Funds etc.) Regulations 1990"
    },
    {
      "type": "excluded",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/1203",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Reserve Forces) Regulations 1991"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/1203",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Reserve Forces) Regulations 1991"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1989/372",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government (Superannuation and Compensation) (Amendment) Regulations 1989"
    },
    {
      "type": "modified",
      "affecting": "uksi/1989/1161",
      "affecting_title": "The Water Reorganisation (Pensions etc.) Regulations 1989"
    },
    {
      "type": "modified",
      "affecting": "uksi/1989/1161",
      "affecting_title": "The Water Reorganisation (Pensions etc.) Regulations 1989"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1987/1579",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Reorganisation (Pensions etc.) (Greater Manchester and Merseyside) Order 1987"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1990/2480",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Investments) Regulations 1990"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1990/1285",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Finance (Miscellaneous Amendments and Repeal) Order 1990"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/24/regulation/E29",
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  },
  "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."
}