Regulation 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

These Regulations may be cited as the Local Government Pension Scheme (Environment Agency) Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 1st April 1996.

In these Regulations:—

• “the Active Fund” means the fund established by the National Rivers Authority on 7th July 1989 under the provisions of the Local Government Superannuation (Water) Regulations 1989^f1;

• “the Closed Fund” means the pension fund vested in the National Rivers Authority by virtue of regulation 2(2)(a) of the Local Government Superannuation (Water) Regulations 1989 to which the pension fund vested in the National Rivers Authority by virtue of regulation 2(2)(b) of those Regulations was transferred under the Local Government Superannuation (National Rivers Authority) Regulations 1993^f2;

• “the Environment Agency” has the same meaning as in the Environment Act 1995^f3;

• “the principal Regulations” means the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 1995^f4 and, unless the context otherwise requires, expressions which are also used in the principal Regulations have the same meaning as they have in these Regulations.