# The Local Government Pension Scheme (Transitional Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 2008, Regulation 15: Communities scheme transferees

Extent: S
Status: prospective

(1) Communities scheme transferees and their surviving spouses, dependants and children are entitled to such rights under the Scheme as are specified in guidance issued by the scheme actuary.
(2) A Communities scheme transferee is a person–
(a) who became employed by a Community institution after having been employed in local government employment;
(b) in respect of whom the scheme managers of the Communities' scheme were paid a transfer value under Chapter IV or Part IV of the Pension Schemes Act 1993 or Part J of the 1987 Regulations or any corresponding earlier provisions; and
(c) whose fund authority (as defined in regulation 73 of the Administration Regulations (application of Chapter 4 etc.)) have been repaid for the credit of their pension fund an amount which in accordance with that guidance may be treated as equivalent to that transfer value.
(3) The rights to which any person is entitled by virtue of guidance under this regulation must not be less valuable than those to which the person would have been entitled if regulation J6 of the 1987 Regulations still applied to that person.
(4) In this Regulation–
“the Communities scheme” means the pension scheme provided for officials and other servants of the Communities in accordance with regulations adopted by the Council of the European Communities; and
“Community institution” includes a body treated as one of the Communities' institutions for the purposes of the Communities' scheme.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2008/229/regulation/15 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-transitional-provisions-scotland-regulations-2008/regulation-15
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