# The Water Reorganisation (Pensions etc.) Regulations 1989, Regulation 4: Transfer of liabilities in respect of pensions etc.


(1) Subject to paragraph (3), all liabilities relating to pensions payable to, or in respect of, any person to whom this paragraph applies which would, but for the 1989 Act, fall to be discharged on or after the transfer date by a water authority by virtue of any provision mentioned in Schedule 1 or 2 hereto (other than from a fund maintained for the purposes of regulations made under section 7 of the Superannuation Act 1972 shall become liabilities of the National Rivers Authority.
(2) Paragraph (1) applies to a person who has at any time been the chairman or otherwise been a member of or an employee of –
(a) a water authority;
(b) a former water authority; or
(c) the National Water Council.
(3) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to any liability relating to the payment of a pension which is not a preserved pension to, or in respect of, a person who –
(a) immediately before the transfer date is the chairman or other member of a water authority; and
(b) on that date becomes a director of a successor company or of a company nominated in accordance with section 82(1) of the 1989 Act as the nominated holding company of a successor company.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1161/regulation/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/water-reorganisation-pensions-etc-regulations-1989/regulation-4
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