Regulation 28 Appropriate administering authorities

For the heading and text of regulation 99, substitute—

“Appropriate administering authorities

99.

(1)

For this Chapter an administering authority are the appropriate administering authority for the purpose of resolving disagreements in respect of which an application is made under regulation 102 if—

(a)

where the person making the application is a member or prospective member, they are or were his last appropriate administering authority for the other purposes of these Regulations, and

(b)

where the person making the application is the widow, widower or surviving dependent of a deceased member, they were his appropriate administering authority.

(2)

Each administering authority shall determine—

(a)

the procedure to be followed by them when exercising their functions as an appropriate administering authority under regulation 102; and

(b)

the manner in which those functions are to be exercised.”.