{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-railway-pensions-transfer-of-pension-schemes-order-2007/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-railway-pensions-transfer-of-pension-schemes-order-2007/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2007/9780110771908",
  "legislation_title": "The Railway Pensions (Transfer of Pension Schemes) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-railway-pensions-transfer-of-pension-schemes-order-2007",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“1974 Fund” means the B.R. (1974) Pension Fund;\n“Schedule 11” means Schedule 11 to the Railways Act 1993;\n“transfer date” means the date on which this Order comes into force;\n“transferee scheme” means the 1994 Pensioners Section of the Railways Pension Scheme;\n“transferor scheme” means any one of the following schemes and “transferor schemes” means all of such schemes—\n(a) the 1974 Fund;\n(b) The London and North Western Railway Provident Society for providing pensions for widows and orphans of the salaried staff;\n(c) Great Western Railway Supplemental Pensions Reserve Fund;\n(d) The Great Western Railway Salaried Staff Widows’ and Orphans’ Pension Society;\n(e) The Great Northern Railway Superannuation Fund;\n(f) Great Western Railway Inspectors and Foremen’s Special Pension Fund;\n(g) The Southern Railway (South Eastern and Chatham Section) Enginemen & Motormen’s Pension Fund Society .\n“transferring member” means a person who immediately before the transfer date—\n(a) has pension rights under a transferor scheme; but\n(b) does not include persons who have pension rights under the 1974 Fund unless that person also has pension rights under at least one of the other transferor schemes; and\n“transferring members” means all such members.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "All of the transferor schemes were designated as existing schemes for the purpose of paragraph 1 of Schedule 11 to the Railways Act 1993 by article 15 of and the schedule to the Railway Pensions (Protection and Designation of Schemes) Order 1994 (S.I. 1994/1432)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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  },
  "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."
}