{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-federated-superannuation-system-for-universities-amendment-regulations-1975/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1975/1383",
  "legislation_title": "The Pensions Increase (Federated Superannuation System for Universities) (Amendment) Regulations 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-federated-superannuation-system-for-universities-amendment-regulations-1975",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "Under section 2 of the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971 (as amended by section 25(1) of the Superannuation Act 1972) the Minister for the Civil Service is required to conduct a review of rates of public service pensions against any rise in the cost of living during the review period. The Order provides for the payment, with effect from 1st December 1975, of the pension increases resulting from the 1975 review and based on the rise in the cost of living during the review period of twelve months ending with 30th June 1975. To qualify for increase a person in receipt of a pension must satisfy one of the qualifying conditions specified in section 3 of the 1971 Act (as amended by section 3(2) and (3) of the Pensions (Increase) Act 1974) or the pension must be a widow's pension.\nFor pensions (or deferred lump sums) which began on or before 1st July 1974 the increase (26.1 per cent.) is of the percentage by which the cost of living rose during the review period. For pensions (or deferred lump sums) which began in the six months following 1st July 1974, or in the six months following 1st January 1975, the increases (29.3 per cent. and 19.9 per cent. respectively) are of the percentage by which the cost of living at the end of the review period exceeded its mean level during the periods of six months ending 31st July 1974 and 31st January 1975 respectively.\nThe Order reproduces, in the Schedule, section 1 of the 1971 Act with the effect of the earlier Orders and this Order incorporated in it, so as to indicate the cumulative increases payable under the Act and the annual Orders.\nThe Order also provides, in article 4, for the payment, as a result of the review, of a supplementary increase of 13.5 per cent. on deferred lump sums which became payable in the six months ending 1st July 1975, but whose beginning date fell before 2nd January 1975. This increase is based, in accordance with section 9(4) of the 1971 Act, on the difference between the mean level of the cost of living during the period of six months ending 1st January 1975 and its mean level in the six months ending 1st July 1975.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1975/1383/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:59:53.505353+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."
}