{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-act-1989/schedule-15/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-act-1989/schedule-15/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1989/29",
  "legislation_title": "Electricity Act 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-act-1989",
  "path": "schedule/15/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (3) below, this sub-paragraph applies to—\n(a) any—\n(i) existing employee of the Scottish Boards; or\n(ii) existing employee of a Consultative Council,\nwho, immediately before the transfer date, is a participant in the North Scheme or the South Scheme;\n(b) any existing employee of the Scottish Boards who, after that date, participates in either scheme within three months of his attaining the minimum age for such participation;\n(c) any former participant in either scheme who, after that date, participates in or acquires pension rights under either scheme in such circumstances as may be prescribed by regulations under paragraph 2 above; and\n(d) any person who participates in either scheme in pursuance of regulations made under paragraph 1(1)(a) above.\n(2) Subject to sub-paragraph (3) below, this sub-paragraph applies to—\n(a) any person not falling within sub-paragraph (1)(c) above who, immediately before the transfer date, is not a participant in the North Scheme or the South Scheme but has pension rights under either scheme; and\n(b) any person who, after that date, acquires pension rights under a relevant scheme by reason of the death of a person falling within sub-paragraph (1) or paragraph (a) above,\nbut only as respects the pension rights by virtue of which he falls within paragraph (a) or (b) above.\n(3) Any person to whom sub-paragraph (1) or (2) above applies may elect in such manner as may be prescribed by regulations under paragraph 2 above that that sub-paragraph shall cease to apply to him; and if, otherwise than in such circumstances as may be so prescribed, any person to whom sub-paragraph (1) above applies—\n(a) ceases to be in continuous employment; or\n(b) voluntarily withdraws from a relevant scheme and does not forthwith—\n(i) become a participant in another such scheme; and\n(ii) transfer to that scheme the pension rights which have accrued to him before that time under the scheme from which he is withdrawing,\nthat sub-paragraph shall cease to apply to him except as respects pension rights which have so accrued.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/29/schedule/15/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:46:38.123919+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."
}