{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-transitional-financial-provisions-scotland-order-1996/article-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-transitional-financial-provisions-scotland-order-1996/article-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/682",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Transitional Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-transitional-financial-provisions-scotland-order-1996",
  "path": "article/17",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Compensation payments",
  "text": "(1) Subject to article 19(2) below, any liability or obligation to which a regional or district council are subject immediately before the transfer date under—\n(a) the Local Government (Compensation for Premature Retirement) (Scotland) Regulations 1979; or\n(b) the Teachers' (Compensation for Premature Retirement) (Scotland) Regulations 1980,\nshall transfer on that date to that council’s accounting authority.\n(2) Where an accounting authority of a regional or district council is not an authority specified in column 2 of Schedule 3A to the Local Government Superannuation (Scotland) Regulations 1987, the authority specified in that column opposite the name of the accounting authority in question (as shown in column 1 of that Schedule) shall discharge the liabilities and obligations of that accounting authority under this article and may recover from them the amount of any payments made in so doing.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1979/785, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1980/1254, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/1850; relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1995/3294."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/682/article/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:48:49.493086+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."
}