Regulation 20 Eligibility

After regulation 130B^f1, insert the following—

“Employees in the Rent Service Agency

130C

(1)

A person may be an active member if he is employed in the service of the Secretary of State’s function of providing rent officers with clerical and other assistance as mentioned in regulation 2 of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) (Rent Officer Service) Regulations 1999^f2 and—

(a)

immediately before 1st October 1999 he was a member, or eligible to be a member, of the Scheme and was employed by a local authority for the purposes of providing rent officers with clerical and other assistance, and

(b)

on 1st October 1999 he became employed in the civil service of the State for the purposes of providing such clerical and other assistance.

(2)

For the purposes of these regulations every member within paragraph (1) is deemed to be in employment with the London Pensions Fund Authority.

(3)

A person described in paragraph (1) may be a member notwithstanding that he is in employment in the civil service of the State and regulation 6(1) shall not apply.”.