{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-transport-pensions-of-employees-no-1-order-1968/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-transport-pensions-of-employees-no-1-order-1968/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1968/2011",
  "legislation_title": "The British Transport (Pensions of Employees) (No. 1) Order 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-transport-pensions-of-employees-no-1-order-1968",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Certain transfers not to affect eligibility to join pension schemes",
  "text": "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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1968/2011/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T23:16:35.590258+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."
}