Regulation 2 Interpretation

In these regulations—

• “the Act” means the Iron and Steel Act 1949 as revived and amended by the Iron and Steel Act 1967;

• “added years” means years purchased under the provisions of the last relevant pension scheme for the purpose of being reckoned as pensionable service;

• “the Corporation” means the British Steel Corporation;

• “enactment” means any Act or any instrument made under an Act;

• “last relevant pension scheme” means the pension scheme to which a pensionable officer was last subject before suffering loss of employment or loss or diminution of emoluments or pension rights in consequence of a relevant event;

• “long-term compensation” means compensation payable in accordance with Part IV of these regulations for loss of employment or loss or diminution of emoluments;

• “material date” means in the case of a person to whom these regulations apply and—

  1. (a)

     who is or has been an officer of a company which came into public ownership under Part II of the Act, the date on which the relevant event occurred in consequence of which he suffered loss of employment or loss or diminution of emoluments or pension rights as the case may be;

  2. (b)

     who has been an officer of the Iron and Steel Board established under Part II of the Iron and Steel Act 1953, 27th August 1967;

• “minimum pensionable age” means, in relation to a pensionable officer, the earliest age at which, under his last relevant pension scheme, he could have become entitled to the immediate payment of a pension, other than a pension payable in consequence of his redundancy or his incapacity to discharge efficiently the duties of his employment by reason of permanent ill-health or infirmity of mind or body;

• “national service” means service which is relevant service within the meaning of the Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act 1951, and includes service immediately following such service as aforesaid, being service in any of Her Majesty's naval, military or air forces pursuant to a voluntary engagement entered into with the consent of the person under whom an officer held his last relevant employment;

• “net annual emoluments” in relation to any employment means , subject to the provisions of regulation 38, the annual rate of the emoluments of that employment less such part of those emoluments as the officer was liable to contribute under a pension scheme associated with his employment (but including any part of those emoluments payable in respect of additional voluntary contributions); and in relation to any employment which has been lost or the emoluments of which have been diminished, the expression means the annual rate of emoluments as aforesaid immediately before the loss or diminution, as the case may be;

• “normal retiring age” means, in the case of a pensionable officer, in relation to whom his last relevant pension scheme prescribes an age at which he becomes or would have become entitled to receive a normal retirement pension, that age and, in any other case, the age of 65 years, if the officer is a male, or 60 years if the officer is a female;

• “pensionable officer”, in relation to a person to whom these regulations apply who has suffered loss of employment or loss or diminution of emoluments or pension rights in consequence of a relevant event, means such a person who immediately before such loss or diminution was subject to a pension scheme;

• “reckonable service”, in relation to a person to whom these regulations apply, means any period of any relevant employment which is not a period in respect of which a pension (other than a return of contributions) has been paid or will become payable otherwise than under the last relevant pension scheme, and includes any period of war service or national service undertaken on his ceasing to hold any such employment;

• “relevant employment” means whole-time employment in the service of—

  1. (a)

     the Corporation; or

  2. (b)

     a publicly-owned company (including service before the coming into public ownership of that company); or

  3. (c)

     the Iron and Steel Board; or

  4. (d)

     the Iron and Steel Corporation of Great Britain established under the Iron and Steel Act 1949; or

  5. (e)

     a previous owner of an undertaking owned by a publicly-owned company; or

  6. (f)

     any organisation representative of the interests of iron and steel producers as defined by section 47(2) of the Iron and Steel Act 1967; or

  7. (g)

     a company, not being a publicly-owned company, which during the period of whole-time employment was wholly or mainly engaged in iron and steel activities as defined by subsection (4) of the said section 47; or

  8. (h)

     an organisation wholly or mainly engaged in undertaking research in relation to iron and steel activities, as so defined, as a common service for iron and steel producers as so defined; or

  9. (i)

     the Crown,

• “relevant event”, in the case of a person who is or has been an officer of a company which came into public ownership under Part II of the Act means—

  1. (a)

     the company so coming into public ownership; or

  2. (b)

     effect being given to conclusions reported under section 4 of the Iron and Steel Act 1967 to the Minister; or

  3. (c)

     effect being given to a direction given by the Minister by virtue of section 7(2) of that Act,

  and, in the case of a person who has been an officer of the Iron and Steel Board, means the dissolution of that Board;

• “resettlement compensation” means compensation payable in accordance with Part III of these regulations for loss of employment;

• “retirement compensation” means compensation payable in accordance with Part V of these regulations for loss or diminution of pension rights;

• “tribunal” means a tribunal established under section 12 of the Industrial Training Act;

• “war service” means war service within the meaning of the Local Government Staffs (War Service) Act 1939, the Teachers Superannuation (War Service) Act 1939, the Education (Scotland) (War Service Superannuation) Act 1939, the Police and Firemen (War Service) Act 1939 or employment for war purposes, within the meaning of the Superannuation Schemes (War Service) Act 1940 and includes any period of service in the first world war in the armed forces of the Crown or in the forces of the allied or associated powers if such service immediately followed a period of relevant employment and was undertaken either compulsorily or with the permission of the employer in that employment;

• “whole-time employment” means employment after reaching the age of 18 years, being employment to which the employee is required to devote on the average not less than 30 hours per week.

Expressions used in these regulations shall, unless the contrary intention appears, have the same respective meanings as in the Act.

Unless the context otherwise requires, references in these regulations to the provisions of any enactment shall be construed as references to those provisions as amended, re-enacted or modified by any subsequent enactment.

The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply to the interpretation of these regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.