{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-act-1971/schedule-3/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-act-1971/schedule-3/paragraph-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1971/56",
  "legislation_title": "Pensions (Increase) Act 1971",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-act-1971",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of this Act “local authority” means—\n( a) in England and Wales—\n(i) a billing authority or a precepting authority, as defined in section 69 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992;\n(ia) a fire and rescue authority in Wales constituted by a scheme under section 2 of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 or a scheme to which section 4 of that Act applies;\n(ib ) the London Fire Commissioner;\n(ii) a levying body within the meaning of section 74 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 ; and\n(iii) a body as regards which section 75 of that Act applies; and\n(b) in Scotland any regional, islands or district council.\n(2) References in this Act to a local authority shall apply also\n(a) to any joint board or joint committee established under or by virtue of any Act if all the constituent authorities are local authorities; and\n(b) to any other joint committee established by a combination scheme under section 5(1) and (2) of the Local Government and other Officers’ Superannuation Act 1922 or under section 2 of the Local Government Superannuation Act 1937 or the Local Government Superannuation (Scotland) Act 1937 or in accordance with regulations made under section 7 of the Superannuation Act 1972 ; and\n(c) in relation to cases where they are the employing authority for purposes of the Local Government Superannuation Act 1937 or the Local Government Superannuation (Scotland) Act 1937 or for the purposes of regulations made under section 7 of the Superannuation Act 1972 , any passenger transport executive for the purposes of Part II of the Transport Act 1968 and\n(d) in Scotland to any water development board within the meaning of the Water (Scotland) Act 1967 and to any river purification board established under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Para. 6(1)(a) substituted by S.I. 1974/595 , art. 3(16)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 3 paras. 6(1)(a)(i)-(iii) substituted for words (E.W.) by S.I. 1990/776 , arts. 2(2) , 8 , Sch. 3 para. 14"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 6(1)(a)(i)(ia) substituted for para. 6(1)(a)(i) (2.11.1992) by Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14) , s. 117(1) , Sch 13 , para. 30 ; S.I. 1992/2454 , art. 2 ."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 6(1)(a)(ia) substituted (1.10.2004 for specified purposes except in relation to W.) by Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 (c. 21), s. 61, Sch. 1 para. 36(2); S.I. 2004/2304, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 6(1)(a)(ib) substituted (31.1.2017 for specified purposes, 1.4.2018 in so far as not already in force) by Policing and Crime Act 2017 (c. 3), s. 183(1)(5)(e), Sch. 2 para. 34; S.I. 2018/227, reg. 4(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 6(1)(a)(ii) substituted (1.10.2004 for specified purposes except in relation to W.) by Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 (c. 21), s. 61, Sch. 1 para. 36(3); S.I. 2004/2304, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Para. 6(1)(b) substituted by Pensions (Increase) Act 1974 (c. 9) , s. 3(4)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words inserted by Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11) , Sch. 6 para. 90(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words inserted by Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11) , Sch. 6 para. 90(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words substituted by Transport Act 1985 (c. 67, SIF 126) , s. 57(6) , Sch. 3 para. 23"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words inserted by Pensions (Increase) Act 1974 (c. 9) , s. 3(4)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1922 c. 59 ."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1937 c. 68 ."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1937 c. 69 ."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "1972 c. 11 ."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M5",
      "text": "1972 c. 11 ."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M6",
      "text": "1968 c.73 ( 126 )."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M7",
      "text": "1967 c. 78 ."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M8",
      "text": "1973 c. 65 ."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/56/schedule/3/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:49:44.951420+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."
}