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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-superannuation-scotland-regulations-1987/regulation-A2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1850",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Scotland) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-superannuation-scotland-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/A2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "A2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 1 contains a glossary of expressions and in these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, any expression listed in column 1 of that Schedule has the meaning given against it in column 2 of that Schedule or is to be construed in accordance with directions given against it in column 2 of that Schedule.\n(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—\n(a) any reference to a numbered regulation, Part or Schedule is to be construed as a reference to the regulation, Part or Schedule, as the case may be, which bears that number in these Regulations, and any reference to a numbered paragraph in a regulation of, or a Schedule to, these Regulations is to be construed as a reference to the paragraph bearing that number in that regulation or, as the case may be, that Schedule;\n(b) any reference to, or to things done or falling to be done under or for the purposes of, any provision of these Regulations is, if and so far as the nature of the reference permits, to be construed as including, in relation to circumstances or purposes in relation to which the corresponding provision in the 1974 Regulations has or had effect, a reference to, or as the case may be to things done or falling to be done under or for the purposes of, that corresponding provision;\n(c) any reference to—\n(i) any enactment applying to Scotland listed in the table in paragraph 5 of Schedule 7 to the Act of 1972, or\n(ii) any instrument (including a scheme) made under any enactment so listed, or\n(iii) any provision of any such enactment or instrument, is to be construed as a reference to that enactment, instrument or provision as having effect by virtue of sub-paragraph (1) of that paragraph and as amended by the Miscellaneous Provisions Regulations.\n(3) Where these Regulations require anything to be done within a specified period after or from a specified day or event, the period begins immediately after the specified day or, as the case may be, the day on which the specified event occurs.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added (pt.12.1.1998) (pt.retrosp.to 31.12.1992)",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/3048",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Scotland) Amendment (No.4) Regulations 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "replaced (by reg.E9(3)(a)-(d))",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/3048",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Scotland) Amendment (No.4) Regulations 1997"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1850/regulation/A2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:18:54.659485+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."
}