Explanatory note

These Regulations provide for the payment of increases under the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971 on the local authorities', National Water Council's and other pensions described in the Schedule.

In the case of some of the pensions so described, the Regulations also make provision for securing that the cost of increasing them is borne by the appropriate authority.

The Regulations provide for the increase of pension to take effect, in the case of pensions payable by local authorities in Scotland, from 16th May 1975 and, under the powers in section 5(4) of the Act of 1971, they provide for the increase of pension to take effect, in all (save one) of the other cases, from 1st April 1974 (in the one case, from 1st June 1973).