Article 10
Where by reason of any provision of this Order any liability falls upon the appropriate body for a pension scheme in respect of a discharged officer or an officer to whom Article 9 of this Order applies and—
in the case of a discharged officer, he was not an officer of, or of any subsidiary of, that body immediately before his discharge, and
in the case of an officer to whom Article 9 of this Order applies, he was not an officer of, or of any subsidiary of, that body immediately before the occurrence of the diminution of his emoluments or the change in the nature or terms of his employment,
then whichever of the following bodies, that is to say, the Railways Board, the Freight Corporation, the Bus Company, the Scottish Group and the Holding Company, was the body by which, or by the subsidiary of which, he was employed immediately before the discharge or occurrence aforesaid, shall make such payment by way of contribution to the liability of the appropriate body as may be just in all the circumstances; and if there is any disagreement between the bodies concerned as to the obligations of any such body as aforesaid under this Article, the matter shall, on the application of either body, be referred for decision to the Minister and the Secretary of State jointly, in a case involving the Scottish Group, or to the Minister in all other cases, and the decision of the Minister and the Secretary of State or the decision of the Minister (as the case may be) shall be final.