{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-transport-amalgamation-of-railways-pension-funds-no-2-order-1970/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-transport-amalgamation-of-railways-pension-funds-no-2-order-1970/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1970/1298",
  "legislation_title": "The British Transport (Amalgamation of Railways' Pension Funds) (No. 2) Order 1970",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-transport-amalgamation-of-railways-pension-funds-no-2-order-1970",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Alterations in the terms of the Amalgamated Fund and of certain other schemes for providing pensions",
  "text": "(1) This Article shall apply to the Amalgamated Fund and to the other pension schemes listed in Schedule 1 to this Order.\n(2) A person who becomes a member of the New Fund on or after the 14th September 1970 shall, so long as he is a contributing member of the New Fund, be ineligible for admission to a pension scheme to which this Article applies.\n(3) Where a member of a pension scheme to which this Article applies becomes a member of the New Fund on or after the 14th September 1970, the following provisions shall have effect:—\n(a) upon the date of his admission to membership of the New Fund he shall cease to be a member of that pension scheme and (except as hereinafter provided) his liability to pay contributions to and his right to receive benefit from that scheme shall cease; and\n(b) as soon as may be after that date the persons administering that pension scheme shall pay to the New Fund an appropriate transfer value in respect of the accrued pension rights of that member in that scheme.\n(4) Where by reason of the foregoing provisions of this Article a person ceases to be a member of the Railway Clearing System Superannuation Fund and immediately before that cessation he was a member of the Committee of that fund, he may, notwithstanding that cessation, continue to act as a member of the said Committee for a period not exceeding three years from the date of that cessation, but subject, however, to all the other provisions applicable to the office of member of that Committee.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1970/1298/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T22:55:45.177043+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."
}