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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-superannuation-regulations-1986/schedule-12/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-superannuation-regulations-1986/schedule-12/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1986/24",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Superannuation Regulations 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-superannuation-regulations-1986",
  "path": "schedule/12/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Where a person wishes to make a surrender he may—\n(a) in the case of a pensionable employee who on ceasing to hold his employment becomes entitled to a retirement pension (in this schedule referred to as “a retiring employee”) not more than 2 months before or within one month after the date on which he ceases to be employed; and\n(b) in the case of a pensionable employee who would, if he were to retire from his employment, become entitled to a retirement pension (in this schedule referred to as “a continuing employee”), within 2 months before or at any time after becoming a continuing employee and while he is still employed,\nnotify his desire to surrender a part of that retirement pension by completing a copy of the form specified at the end of this schedule, or a form to the like effect, and sending it to the appropriate administering authority;\nProvided that where the appropriate administering authority are satisfied that it has not been reasonably practicable for a retiring employee to notify his desire to surrender a part of a retirement pension within the time limit imposed by sub-paragraph (a), owing to circumstances beyond his control, they may at their discretion extend that limit to a date not more than 6 months after the date on which he ceases to be employed.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 12 para. 4 in force at 1.3.1986, see reg. A1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/24/schedule/12/paragraph/4",
    "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."
}