# The Pensions Increase (Approved Schemes) (Local Government) (Amendment) Regulations 1975, Note: Explanatory note


The Pensions Increase (Approved Schemes) (Local Government) Regulations 1972 (“the principal regulations”) provide for the payment to certain persons, who have left local government employment and whose pension rights were secured by insurance policies, of amounts corresponding to the pension increases they would have received under the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971 had they been subject to the local government superannuation scheme.
These Regulations amend the definition of “local authority” in the principal regulations consequentially on the reorganisation of local authorities by the Local Government Act 1972 (regulation 3).
In addition the Regulations amend the principal regulations, in relation to persons who leave local government employment on or after 31st March 1972, to take account of changes to conditions of entitlement to benefits under the local government superannuation scheme, and changes to the amount of those benefits, effected since the commencement of the principal regulations and now contained in the Local Government Superannuation Regulations 1974—those changes were made only in relation to persons subject to that scheme who leave local government employment on or after 31st March 1972 (regulation 4).
Under the powers in section 13(5) of the 1971 Act the Regulations provide for any benefit, or any increase of benefit, attributable to the Regulations to take effect from 1st April 1972.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1975/503/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-approved-schemes-local-government-amendment-regulations-1975/note
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