{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/superannuation-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1948/section-17",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/11-12/33",
  "legislation_title": "Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1948",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/superannuation-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1948",
  "path": "section/17",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Interpretation.",
  "text": "(1) In this Act, except so far as the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them—\n. . .\n“local Act scheme” has the same meaning as in section 8 of the Superannuation Act 1972;\n“pension”, in relation to any person, means a pension, whether contributory or not, of any kind whatsoever payable to or in respect of him, and includes a lump sum or a gratuity so payable and a return of contributions to a pension fund, with or without interest thereon or any other addition thereto;\n“pension fund” means a fund established for the purpose of paying pensions and includes in relation to schemes made under section 1 of the Superannuation Act 1972 and regulations made under section 9 thereof, the Consolidated Fund.\n“pension rights” includes, in relation to any person, all forms of right to, or eligibility for, the present or future payment of a pension to or in respect of that person;\n“pension scheme” includes any form of arrangements for the payment of pensions, whether subsisting by virtue of Act of Parliament, trust, contract or otherwise;\n“pensionable employment” means employment which is relevant in relation to the pension rights of the person employed, and includes all such employment, whether or not for a period sufficient to render him entitled to, or eligible for, the payment of a pension to or in respect of him;\n“Scottish Teachers Superannuation Scheme” means the Teachers Superannuation Scheme and the Teachers (Superannuation) Regulations as those expressions are defined in section 145(47) and (48) of the Education (Scotland) Act 1962;\n“statutory provison” means a provision, whether of a general or special nature, contained in or in any document made or issued under any Act, whether of a general or special nature;\n. . .\n(2) Any reference in this Act to any other enactment shall, except so far as the context otherwise requires, be construed as a reference to that enactment as amended by or under any other enactment, including this Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Definitions repealed by Superannuation Act 1965 (c. 74), Sch. 11, Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), Sch. 11 and S.I. 1977/1341, Sch. 6 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Definition inserted by Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), Sch. 6 para. 26(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words substituted by Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), Sch. 6 para. 26(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Definition substituted by Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1967 (c. 28), s. 11(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Definition repealed by Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), Sch. 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1972 c. 11."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1972 c. 11."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1962 c. 47."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/11-12/33/section/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:23:12.920780+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."
}