{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-superannuation-scotland-regulations-1987/regulation-S2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-superannuation-scotland-regulations-1987/regulation-S2.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/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 21st December 1987 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 21st December 1987, 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": 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/S2",
    "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."
}