The Water Authorities (Retirement of Chief Officers) Regulations 1974

3.  An employment for the purpose of regulation 3(3)(f)(ii) shall (in addition to employment specified in part I of this Schedule) be employment by—

(a) any authority specified in section 1(10) or (11) of the Act or section 20(6) of the Act,

(b) the Greater London Council, the council of a London Borough, the Common Council of the City of London, a parish council or a community council,

(c) any authority specified in section 2 or 21 of the Act,

(d) any other authority or body not specified in (a) (b) or (c) above constituted for the purposes of local government in the United Kingdom,

(e) any committee (including a joint committee) established by or under any enactment for the purpose of exercising the functions of or advising two or more authorities described in (a), (b), (c) or (d) above,

(f) any two or more authorities or bodies described in (a), (b), (c), (d) or (e) above acting jointly or as a combined authority, or

(g) the County Councils Association, the Association of Municipal Corporations, the Urban District Councils Association or the Rural District Councils Association, or in the event of such an association ceasing to exist, the association succeeding to the property and liabilities of that association,

being employment as a chief officer or deputy chief officer or other officer equivalent in status to such an officer.