Regulation A2 InterpretationI1

any reference to a numbered regulation, Part or Schedule is to be construed as a reference to the regulation, Part or Schedule, as the case may be, which bears that number in these regulations, and any reference to a numbered paragraph in a regulation of or a Schedule to these regulations is to be construed as a reference to the paragraph bearing that number in that regulation or, as the case may be, that Schedule,

any reference to, or to things done or falling to be done under or for the purposes of, any provision of these regulations is, if and so far as the nature of the reference permits, to be construed as including, in relation to circumstances or purposes in relation to which the corresponding provision in the 1974 regulations has or had effect, a reference to, or as the case may be to things done or falling to be done under or for the purpose of, that corresponding provision,

any reference to any enactment applying to England and Wales listed in the Table in paragraph 5 of Schedule 7 to the Act of 1972 or to any instrument (including a scheme) made under any enactment so listed or to any provision of any such enactment or instrument is to be construed as including a reference to that enactment, instrument or provision as having effect by virtue of sub-paragraph (1) of that paragraph and as amended by the Miscellaneous Provisions regulations and the Local Government Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Regulations 1973^f1, and

in any case where immediately before 1st April 1974 the provisions of the Acts of 1937 to 1953 and the regulations made thereunder applied to a person as modified or extended by the provisions of any local Act or scheme, any reference to a provision of the Act of 1937 or the Act of 1953 or of such regulations is, where a corresponding provision of a local Act or scheme applied to him in lieu of that provision, to be construed in relation to him as a reference to the corresponding provision.