Paragraph 1

The following bodies are admission bodies with whom an administering authority may make an admission agreement—

(a)

a body which provides a public service in the United Kingdom which operates otherwise than for the purposes of gain and has sufficient links with a Scheme employer for the body and the Scheme employer to be regarded as having a community of interest (whether because the operations of the body are dependent on the operations of the Scheme employer or otherwise);

(b)

a body, to the funds of which a Scheme employer contributes;

(c)

a body representative of—

(i)

any Scheme employers; or

(ii)

local authorities or officers of local authorities;

(d)

a body that is providing or will provide a service or assets in connection with the exercise of a function of a Scheme employer as a result of—

(i)

the transfer of the service or assets by means of a contract or other arrangement; or

(ii)

any provision in any enactment;

(e)

a body which provides a public service in the United Kingdom and is approved in writing by the Scottish Ministers for the purpose of admission to the Scheme.