Notification and payment of compensation
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Notify and pay compensation as a lump sum Local authority
UK Statutory Instrument
1998
United Kingdom
The Local Government (Discretionary Payments and Injury Benefits) (Scotland) Regulations 1998
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What's here
5 compliance obligations
Who this Act binds
Plus 5 non-business duties on Crown ministers, regulators, local authorities or tribunals — shown collapsed under each section below.
What this Act requires
Sections that create concrete duties on businesses or carry penalties. Procedural and definitional sections are folded into the “Browse other sections” expander at the bottom of each group. Click any section title to read the source text on legislation.gov.uk.
Supplementary provisions
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- LGSS employer must not double-count qualifying employment in compensation Local authority
Reduction in remuneration
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Pay allowance to employee whose pay is reduced due to work injury/disease Local authority
Retirement gratuities
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Paying discretionary retirement gratuities to qualifying staff Local authority
Decisions and appeals
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- LGSS employers must decide eligibility and notify affected persons Local authority
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Citation, commencement and effect
General interpretation
General exclusions -teachers
Power to increase statutory redundancy payments above statutory weekly pay limit
Interpretation of Part III
Persons who are eligible to benefit: pensionable employees and assumed pensionable employees
Application of Part III to assumed pensionable employees: “relevant disqualification”, “relevant assumptions” and “special service”
Power to award credited period for compensation purposes
Lump sum compensation
Annual compensation; general provisions
Limit on annual compensation where entitlement to occupational pension
Redundancy payments
Other termination payments
Periodic payments
New employment
Reduction of annual compensation during new employment
Cessation of new employment
Reduction of annual compensation on cessation of new employment
Allocation of part of annual compensation
Entitlement to surviving spouse’s short-term and long-term compensation
Amount of surviving spouse’s short-term and long-term compensation
Entitlement to children’s short-term compensation
Amount of children’s short-term compensation
Entitlement to children’s long-term compensation
Amount of children’s long-term compensation
Payment of children’s compensation
Notification of compensation
Information
Payment of compensation
Interest on sums due under Part III
Paying authority – general
Paying authority on closure of certain educational establishments
Retrospective effect in certain cases
Persons to whom this Part applies
Determination to pay and computation of compensation
Interpretation of Part V
Loss of employment through permanent incapacity
Allowances for pensioners
Death benefits
Considerations in determining amount of benefits
Application of Part V in respect of injury or disease before commencement date
Meaning of “service” in Part VI
Death in service gratuities
Redundancy gratuities
Schemes in connection with the exercise of powers
Finance
Revocations and transitional provisions
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