{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-superannuation-scotland-regulations-1987/regulation-N1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-superannuation-scotland-regulations-1987/regulation-N1.json",
  "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/N1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "N1",
  "heading": "Initial decisions",
  "text": "(1) Any question concerning—\n(a) the rights or liabilities under these Regulations of an employee, or a person claiming to be treated as an employee, of a scheduled body, or\n(b) the rights under these Regulations of a person who has been an employee of a scheduled body, or of his widow, dependants or executors, or\n(c) the rights of any person under Part F (war service),\nshall be decided in the first instance by the body concerned.\n(2) Where the body by whom any such question falls to be decided is ascertainable by reference to regulations N2 to N6, that body is for the purposes of this regulation and of regulation N8 (appeals) the body concerned.\n(3) A decision by the body concerned does not bind any other scheduled body or the Secretary of State.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "replaced (by reg.E9(3)(a)-(d))",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/3048",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Scotland) Amendment (No.4) Regulations 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/3048",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Scotland) Amendment (No.4) Regulations 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/674",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1997"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1850/regulation/N1",
    "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."
}