# The Local Government Superannuation (Transferred Water Employees) (No. 2) Regulations 1983, Note: Explanatory note


These regulations adapt the provision made by the Local Government Superannuation (Transferred Water Employees) Regulations 1983 (“the 1983 regulations”) so as to take account of the determination of the functions of the National Water Council (“the Council”).
By virtue of the Local Government Superannuation (National Water Council Dissolution) Regulations 1983 (S.I. 1983/1271) the superannuation fund maintained by the Council is transferred to the Severn-Trent Water Authority, who become the administering authority for the purposes of the Local Government Superannuation Regulations 1974. Regulations 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8(2) substitute for references in the 1983 regulations to the Council references to that authority.
Regulation 4 inserts into the 1983 regulations a new regulation 5A. By virtue of the 1983 regulations certain employees who had been transferred to new employments when the water industry was reorganised under the Water Act 1973 (c.37) retained, or could elect to retain, while they remained in those employments, superannuation rights embodying features of their previous superannuation schemes. New regulation 5A preserves those rights in cases where the employment was with the Council, has ceased after the enactment of the Water Act 1983 (c. 23), and is followed, within 12 months and without any other intervening pensionable or more than temporary employment, by further employment in the water industry. Regulation 8(1) makes a consequential change in the body by whom certain discretionary powers become exercisable in some of these cases.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1983/1268/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-superannuation-transferred-water-employees-no-2-regulations-1983/note
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