Article 4 Contribution obligations of nationalised transport bodies and pension rights of persons who become members or directors of such bodies

Articles 13, 14 and 16 of the British Transport Reorganisation (Pensions of Employees) (No.3) Order 1962^f1 (which make provision for one nationalised transport body to make contributions to another such body and for preserving the pension rights of certain persons who become members or directors of a nationalised transport body), and Article 1 of that Order (which contains definitions) in its application to the said Articles 13, 14 and 16, shall have effect as if—

(a)

the expression “Board” therein included each of the new authorities,

(b)

the expression “existing scheme” therein included any established scheme,

(c)

the expression “the Minister” therein had the same meaning as in this Order,

(d)

in relation to any established scheme, the expression “successor body” therein had the same meaning as the expression “appropriate body” has in this Order, and there were substituted for so much of the definition of the expression “responsible employing body” therein as relates to a past member of an existing scheme, the following—

“(b)

for a past member of an existing scheme, the nationalised transport body in which is vested under such one or more of the following Acts as may be relevant, that is to say, the Transport Act 1947 the Transport Act 1962 and the Transport Act 1968, the particular undertaking, or the particular part of an undertaking (as the case may be), in connection with which he was employed immediately before his pensionable service ended,”

and

(e)

in the said Article 14—

(i)

the expressions “the provisions of this Order” and “the foregoing provisions of this Order” included the provisions of the present Order,

(ii)

the references to liabilities or functions transferred to a body under that Order included a reference to liabilities or functions transferred to a body by this Order or otherwise falling to be borne or exercised by a body in consequence of this Order, and

(iii)

in relation to a scheme where the property, rights and liabilities of the Holding Company are transferred by Part IV of this Order, the references to a power which immediately before the vesting date was exercisable by the Commission included a reference to a power which immediately before the 1st January 1969 was exercisable by the Holding Company.

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Footnotes

f1: (1962 III, p. 3866).