{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-superannuation-scotland-regulations-1987/regulation-N6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-superannuation-scotland-regulations-1987/regulation-N6.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/N6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "N6",
  "heading": "Decisions by administering authorities as to the amount of benefits",
  "text": "(1) Where a person is entitled to a benefit which is or may become payable out of their superannuation fund, an administering authority are to decide the amount of the benefit.\n(2) The amount of a benefit is to be decided as soon as is reasonably practicable after the person becomes entitled to it.\n(3) For the purposes of this regulation “benefit” includes a return of contributions and a benefit specified in regulation F6(11) or (15).",
  "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"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1850/regulation/N6",
    "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."
}