{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-superannuation-scotland-regulations-1993/schedule-13/part-III/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/280",
  "legislation_title": "The Teachers' Superannuation (Scotland) Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-superannuation-scotland-regulations-1993",
  "path": "schedule/13/part/III/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Where–\n(a) a provision of these Regulations (“the new provision”) re-enacts with any modification a provision revoked by these Regulations (“the former provision”); and\n(b) the effect of the general rule is that a person to whom a protected benefit was being paid or might become payable is placed in a worse position than he would have been in if the former provision had continued to have effect,\nhe may by giving written notice to the Secretary of State ⅔ within 3 months after the date on which these Regulations come into force elect that the new provision is to apply in relation to the benefit as if it had re-enacted the former provision without modification.\n(2) A protected benefit is one paid, or capable of becoming payable, to or in respect of a person who before the date on which these Regulations come into force ceased to be in pensionable employment or died.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/280/schedule/13/part/III/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:29:28.411067+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."
}