PART I PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS

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

2 Interpretation
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.