{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/redundant-association-officers-compensation-regulations-1967/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/redundant-association-officers-compensation-regulations-1967/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1967/80",
  "legislation_title": "The Redundant Association Officers Compensation Regulations 1967",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/redundant-association-officers-compensation-regulations-1967",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Eligibility for Retirement Compensation",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of these regulations, compensation under this Part of these regulations (referred to in these regulations as “retirement compensation” ) may be paid in the cases provided for in the following provisions of this Part to a person who after attaining the age of forty years has lost his employment as a pensionable officer of an Association or has suffered a diminution in his emoluments as such an officer if\n(a) in the opinion of the Secretary of State the loss of employment or diminution in emoluments was due to a relevant cause;\n(b) the person had been for a period of not less than eight years immediately preceding the qualifying date continuously engaged (which for the purposes of this regulation means engaged without a break of more than twelve months at any one time) for the whole or part of his time in relevant employment;\n(c) the person had at the date of the loss of employment or commencement of diminution in emoluments not attained normal retiring age;\n(d) the person has made a claim for compensation in accordance with the procedure for making claims set out in Part X of these regulations not later than two years after the loss of employment or commencement of the diminution in emoluments in respect of which the claim is made;\n(e) the person has subsequently been granted a pension under the relevant pension scheme either on reaching normal retiring age, or by virtue of any provision of the relevant pension scheme providing for payment of a reduced pension on retirement before that age; and\n(f) the person is a person who in accordance with regulation 18 is deemed to have made further or increased contributions to the relevant pension scheme.\n(2) For the purposes of this regulation a lump sum payable to a person under a pension scheme to which he has contributed shall be regarded as a pension.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1967/80/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T23:39:39.921548+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."
}