{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/franchising-schemes-and-enhanced-partnership-schemes-pension-protection-england-regulations-2017/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/franchising-schemes-and-enhanced-partnership-schemes-pension-protection-england-regulations-2017/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/1093",
  "legislation_title": "The Franchising Schemes and Enhanced Partnership Schemes (Pension Protection) (England) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/franchising-schemes-and-enhanced-partnership-schemes-pension-protection-england-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 2000 Act” means the Transport Act 2000;\n“relevant employee” means a transferring original employee who, as an employee of the original operator, had rights to acquire pension benefits; and\n“scheme” means a franchising scheme or an enhanced partnership scheme.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The terms “original operator” and “transferring original employee” are defined in section 123X(10) and 138S(10) of the Transport Act 2000."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "By virtue of section 162(1) of the Transport Act 2000 as amended by the Bus Services Act 2017, Schedule 2, paragraph 23(2) and Schedule 4, paragraph 8, the terms “franchising scheme” and “enhanced partnership scheme” are to be construed in accordance with section 123A(3) and 138A of that Act as inserted by the Bus Services Act 2017, sections 4 and 9 respectively."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/1093/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:06:31.822173+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."
}