Article 6 Certain transfers not to affect eligibility to join pension schemes

Where, by reason of a transfer under any of the following provisions of the Act, namely, sections 4(1), 4(4), 5(3)(a) or (b), 7(5) or (6), 8(4), 28(1), (2) or (5), 29(2) or 53(2), a person ceases to be employed by one nationalised transport body and becomes employed by another such body, or the employer of a person ceases to be a subsidiary of one nationalised transport body and becomes a subsidiary of another such body, and that person is not, immediately before the transfer, a member of an established scheme, then he shall, notwithstanding the transfer, be eligible to become a member of that established scheme to the same extent and on the same basis as he would have been so eligible if the transfer had not occurred.