Paragraph 1

Those persons who—

(a)

have qualifying pension rights which are transferred by article 2 of this Order and which are allocated to the 1994 Pensioners “A” Section of the Railways Pension Scheme by Schedule 2 to this Order; and

(b)

on 30th June 1980 were members of the British Railways Superannuation Fund: New Section;

shall be treated as constituting a section of the Railways Pension Scheme and that section is hereby designated as a pension scheme which is to be treated as included among those schemes which are B.R. pension schemes for the purposes of Part III of the Transport Act 1980^f1 for the purpose of requiring or enabling the Secretary of State to make payments under section 52(1), 52A, 52B or 52C of that Act.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1980 c. 34; section 52(1) was amended, and sections 52A to 52C were inserted by, paragraph 9 of Schedule 11 to the Railways Act 1993; there are other amendments not relevant to this order.