{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-superannuation-regulations-1986/regulation-S2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-superannuation-regulations-1986/regulation-S2.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/S2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "S2",
  "heading": "Application to benefits in respect of former employments",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), these regulations apply in relation to benefits which—\n(a) were before 1st March 1986 being paid, or\n(b) may on or after that date become payable,\nto or in respect of persons who before that date ceased to hold, or died while in, a local government employment.\n(2) Where—\n(a) a provision of these regulations (“the new provision”) re-enacts with any modification a provision of any regulations revoked by these regulations (“the former provision”), and\n(b) a person to whom a benefit in relation to which the new provision applies was being paid, or may become payable, as mentioned in paragraph (1) is placed in a worse position by the new provision than he would have been in if the former provision had continued to have effect,\nhe may, by notice in writing given to the appropriate administering authority within 3 months after 1st March 1986, elect that the new provision shall apply in relation to the benefit as if it had re-enacted the former provision without modification.\n(3) In this regulation “benefit” includes an allowance, a gratuity, and a return of contributions.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. S2 in force at 1.3.1986, see reg. A1"
    }
  ],
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      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Amendment) Regulations 1989"
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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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      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Amendment)Regulations 1990"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
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      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Funds etc.) Regulations 1990"
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      "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",
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      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Reserve Forces) Regulations 1991"
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      "affecting": "uksi/1989/1161",
      "affecting_title": "The Water Reorganisation (Pensions etc.) Regulations 1989"
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    },
    {
      "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",
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      "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/S2",
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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."
}