{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-reorganisation-pensions-etc-regulations-1989/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-reorganisation-pensions-etc-regulations-1989/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1161",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Reorganisation (Pensions etc.) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-reorganisation-pensions-etc-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations –\n“the 1989 Act” means the Water Act 1989;\n“former water authority” means any of the following bodies –\nThe Upper Tame Main Drainage Authority;\nThe Derwent Valley Water Board;\nThe Durham County Water Board;\nThe Fylde Water Board;\nThe Staffordshire Potteries Water Board;\nThe West Lancashire Water Board;\nThe Wirral Water Board; and\nThe Metropolitan Water Board;\n“pension” includes an allowance or gratuity and a payment by way of an increase in a pension or by way of compensation for loss of office or for any other reason; and\n“preserved” in relation to any pension means a pension to which a person has become entitled but which has not become payable at the transfer date.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1989/1381",
      "affecting_title": "The Water Reorganisation (Pensions etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 1989"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1161/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:41:01.847809+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."
}