{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-transport-pensions-of-employees-order-1980/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-transport-pensions-of-employees-order-1980/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1980/1351",
  "legislation_title": "The British Transport (Pensions of Employees) Order 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-transport-pensions-of-employees-order-1980",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In this Order—\n“BRB scheme” means any Section of the British Railways Superannuation Fund, the British Railways (Wages Grades) Pension Fund, the British Transport Police Force Superannuation Fund, and any pension scheme established by the British Railways Board or by a subsidiary of the British Railways Board after the coming into operation of this Order, being a scheme to which the British Railways Board have directed that this Order should apply;\n“Corporation scheme” means the National Freight Corporation (Salaried Staff) Pension Fund and the National Freight Corporation (Wages Grades) Pension Fund;\n“guaranteed minimum pensions”, in relation to a pension scheme, has the same meaning as in Part III of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975;\n“member”, in relation to a pension scheme, means a person who has pension rights thereunder by virtue of his pensionable service and whose pensionable service has not ceased and “membership” shall be construed accordingly;\n“pensionable service”, in relation to a member of a pension scheme, means service in respect of which pension rights accrue or have accrued under that scheme;\n“term”, in relation to a pension scheme, includes any rule or provision of the scheme, or of any statutory provision relating to the scheme, or of any deed or other instrument made for the purpose of the scheme; and\n“transferable rights”, in relation to a member of a Corporation scheme who becomes a member of any other pension scheme, means his accrued rights under the Corporation scheme to benefits other than guaranteed minimum pensions and, to the extent that his accrued rights to guaranteed minimum pensions are permitted by section 38 of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 or any statutory amendment or re-enactment thereof to be transferred to that other scheme, his accrued rights to guaranteed minimum pensions, and “non-transferable rights” means his accrued rights under the Corporation scheme other than transferable rights.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1980/1351/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:54:29.088329+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."
}