Assuming the current rule of85 provisions are removed, as planned, from the Local Government Pension Schemeby amendments made to the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations(Scotland) 1998 (as amended) then it is likely that a local authority, as an employercomplying with the legislation passed by the Scottish Parliament, would respondto such a legal challenge from an employee, by claiming that it is obliged toact in the way it had done by virtue of the regulations.