The Research Councils (Transfer of Property etc.) Order 1994

Amendment of the Science and Technology Act 1965

5.—(1) Where any person transferred by virtue of this Order to the employment of EPSRC or PPARC is a person who, by virtue of paragraph 4(1) of Schedule 3 to the Science and Technology Act 1965 (application of Atomic Energy Authority pension scheme to persons employed for the purposes of research into nuclear science), is included immediately before the transfer in the persons for whom a scheme may be maintained under paragraph 7(2) of Schedule 1 to the Atomic Energy Authority Act 1954—

(a) that person shall continue to be so included in respect of his employment with the EPSRC or the PPARC; and

(b) any scheme which is so maintained shall have effect after that transfer as regards that person as if the employment to which he is transferred were a continuation of the employment in respect of which he fell to be so included before the transfer.

(2) The EPSRC and the PPARC shall each pay to the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (in addition to any sums required to be paid in consequence of the transfer by virtue of this Order of any liability under paragraph 4(2) of Schedule 3 to the Science and Technology Act 1965) such sums in respect of

(a) any payments falling by virtue of paragraph (1) above to be made by the Authority to or in respect of a person transferred to the employment of EPSRC or, as the case may be, PPARC, and

(b) the accruing liability for any such payments, as may be agreed between the Council in question and the Authority or as may, in default of agreement, be determined by the Treasury.