{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-superannuation-regulations-1986/regulation-Q1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-superannuation-regulations-1986/regulation-Q1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1986/24",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Superannuation Regulations 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-superannuation-regulations-1986",
  "path": "regulation/Q1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "Q1",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "For the purposes of this Part, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“fund authority” means—\n(a) in relation to a person's previous local government employment, the body maintaining the superannuation fund to which he was a contributor immediately before he ceased to be employed in his previous local government employment, or, if that fund has been closed, the body which would be liable to pay him his pension in respect of that employment if he had been entitled to receive payment of such a pension when he ceased to be employed in his previous local government employment; and\n(b) in relation to a person's new local government employment, the body maintaining the superannuation fund to which he became a contributor in his new local government employment or, if that fund has been closed—\n(i) if when the fund was closed he was not employed in local government employment, the body which would be liable to pay him his pension in respect of his new local government employment if he had been entitled to receive payment of such a pension when he ceased to be employed in that employment; and\n(ii) in all other cases, the body maintaining the superannuation fund to which he became a contributor when the fund was closed;\n“new local government employment” has the same meaning as in regulation Q2(1)(a) and “new employing authority” is to be construed accordingly;\n“new fund authority” has the same meaning as in regulation Q2(1)(b);\n“pension” does not include an allowance or gratuity;\n“previous fund authority” has the same meaning as in regulation Q2(1)(b); and\n“previous local government employment” has the same meaning as in regulation Q2(1)(a) and “previous employing authority” is to be construed accordingly.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. Q1 in force at 1.3.1986, see reg. A1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "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": "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": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/24/regulation/Q1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:56:29.789903+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."
}