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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-transport-pensions-of-employees-transferred-to-harbour-authorities-order-1966/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1966/1465",
  "legislation_title": "The British Transport (Pensions of Employees Transferred to Harbour Authorities) Order 1966",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-transport-pensions-of-employees-transferred-to-harbour-authorities-order-1966",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "This Order provides for the apportionment of and transfer of assets from funded pension schemes of the nationalised transport bodies (the British Railways Board, the London Transport Board, the British Transport Docks Board, the British Waterways Board, the Transport Holding Company and their subsidiaries) and for the payment of transfer values from the British Transport Commission (Male Wages Grades) Pension Scheme and the London Transport (Male Wages Grades) Pension Scheme in cases where a participant in one of these schemes is transferred to a harbour authority outside the nationalised transport industry by virtue of a harbour revision order or a harbour re-organisation scheme under the Harbours Act 1964 or a local act having the same effect, and becomes eligible to participate in a pension scheme established by that harbour authority (Articles 3, 4 and 5).\nProvision is also made for ascertaining the portion of any transferred assets or payment which is to be regarded as the employer's contribution for the purposes of the harbour authority's pension scheme (Article 6), for excluding from any other benefits under the terms of the nationalised transport pension scheme a participant on whose behalf such a transfer or payment has been made (Article 7), and for determining questions arising in connection with such transfers or payments to a harbour authority's pension scheme (Article 8).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1966/1465/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T23:41:10.661692+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."
}