The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 7 and 12 of the Superannuation Act 1972 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after consultation with such associations of local authorities as appeared to him to be concerned, the local authorities with whom consultation appeared to him to be desirable and such representatives of other persons likely to be affected by the Regulations as appeared to him to be appropriate, hereby makes the following Regulations:



PART I

PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS


Citation and commencement


     1. These Regulations may be cited as the Local Government Pension Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 1st April 1998.

Interpretation
     2.  - (1) Schedule 1 contains definitions of expressions used in these Regulations which apply for their interpretation unless the context indicates that they have a different meaning.

    (2) Unless that is so, references to members and membership generally refer to active members and active membership respectively and, in relation to any time before the commencement date, refer to pensionable employees and reckonable service under the 1987 Regulations.