# The British Transport (Pensions of Employees) Order 1980, Note: Explanatory note


This Order provides for certain changes in connection with pension schemes in the nationalised transport sector which are desirable in consequence of Part II of the Transport Act 1980, which provides for the transfer of the undertaking of the National Freight Corporation to a successor company.
Article 4 amends certain provisions of the British Transport (Pensions of Employees) (No. 1) Order 1969 so that those provisions will be applicable in circumstances where employees are members of pension schemes which are not the responsibility of their employing body by virtue of transport legislation enacted subsequently to the 1969 Order. The provisions concerned require the employing body to deduct employees' pension contributions from their salaries and to pay those contributions together with employers' pension contributions and appropriate contributions towards administrative expenses and any deficiency payments, to the bodies responsible for the pensions schemes in question.
Article 5 regulates the position of members of the Corporation's pension schemes who become members of pension schemes for which the British Railways Board are responsible so as to avoid duplication of membership. Articles 6-8 provide for the payment of transfer values in such circumstances, for certain consequential matters, and for the determination of questions.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1980/1351/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/british-transport-pensions-of-employees-order-1980/note
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