Regulation H1 Definitions

In this Part unless the context otherwise requires—

• “Health Service Regulations” means the National Health Service (Superannuation) (Scotland) Regulations 1961 to 1974^f1;

• “transferred employee” means—

  1. (a)

     any person transferred on or after 16th May 1975 by or under an Order or Regulations made under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973^f2 which, in accordance with the provisions of section 216 of that Act, contain a provision as to the transfer of that person;

  2. (b)

     any person appointed by a local authority or a river purification board to hold any office or employment before or as from 16th May 1975, who, but for the appointment, would be transferred on that day under the said section 216; or

  3. (c)

     any person who at 16th May 1975 remained in the employment of the same body as immediately before that date but who, in consequence of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, or anything done thereunder or of the 1974 Regulations, became on that day entitled to participate in the benefits of a superannuation fund maintained under those Regulations by a body different from the body which maintained the superannuation fund in the benefits of which he was immediately before 16th May 1975 entitled to participate;

• “new employment” means employment to which a person is so transferred or appointed; and

• “new employing body” means the body which becomes the employing authority in relation to a person so transferred or appointed;

and in relation to a person appointed as aforesaid his taking up the office or employment to which he is appointed shall for the purposes of this Part be deemed to be a transfer.