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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-local-authorities-etc-pensions-regulations-1974/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1974/1740",
  "legislation_title": "The Pensions Increase (Local Authorities' etc. Pensions) Regulations 1974",
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  "path": "regulation/4",
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  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In the case of a pension specified in paragraph 1, 2, 3 or 4 of the Schedule to these Regulations, any increase of pension payable by virtue of these Regulations shall be paid by the authority by whom the pension is payable; but where that authority are not the last employing authority they shall be reimbursed the cost of any such increase by the last employing authority.\nIn this paragraph “the last employing authority” has the same meaning as in paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 to the Act of 1971.\n(2) In the case of a pension specified in paragraph 7 of the Schedule to these Regulations, any increase of pension payable by virtue of these Regulations shall be paid by the association or body by whom the pension is payable.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1989/417",
      "affecting_title": "The Pensions Increase (Local Authorities' etc. Pensions) (Amendment) Regulations 1989"
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    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1983/1315",
      "affecting_title": "The Pensions Increase (Local Authorities' etc. Pensions) (Amendment) Regulations 1983"
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    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1986/391",
      "affecting_title": "The Pensions Increase (Local Authorities' etc. Pensions) (Amendment) Regulations 1986"
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    {
      "type": "rev in pt",
      "affecting": "uksi/1992/3229",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Merseyside Transport Limited) Regulations 1992"
    },
    {
      "type": "rev. in Pt.",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/948",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Greater Manchester Buses Limited) Regulations 1994"
    },
    {
      "type": "restr",
      "affecting": "uksi/1993/2783",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (South Yorkshire Transport Limited) Regulations 1993"
    }
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  "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."
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