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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-superannuation-regulations-1986/regulation-N5",
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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/N5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "N5",
  "heading": "Decisions by employing authorities as to benefits",
  "text": "(1) Any question whether a person is entitled to a benefit under these regulations is to be decided by the body who last employed the person in respect of whose employment the question arises.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1) “benefit” includes a return of contributions but does not include a benefit specified in Part L or regulation F6(12) or (16).\n(3) Any such question as is mentioned in paragraph (1) is to be decided as soon as is reasonably practicable after the cessation of the employment or, as the case may be, the death of the employee.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. N5 in force at 1.3.1986, see reg. A1"
    }
  ],
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      "type": "amended",
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      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Amendment) Regulations 1989"
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      "type": "inserted",
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      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Amendment) Regulations 1989"
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      "affecting_title": "The Local Government (Superannuation and Compensation) (Amendment) Regulations 1988"
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      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "uksi/1989/1462",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Water) Regulations 1989"
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      "type": "excluded",
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      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Water) Regulations 1989"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
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    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
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      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Funds etc.) Regulations 1990"
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      "type": "replaced",
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    {
      "type": "excluded",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/1203",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Reserve Forces) Regulations 1991"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
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      "affecting": "uksi/1989/1161",
      "affecting_title": "The Water Reorganisation (Pensions etc.) Regulations 1989"
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    {
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    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1987/1579",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Reorganisation (Pensions etc.) (Greater Manchester and Merseyside) Order 1987"
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    {
      "type": "amended",
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      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Investments) Regulations 1990"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/24/regulation/N5",
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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."
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