The Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 1997

Former employees of Manchester Corporation

140.—(1) This regulation applies where a transferred employee (as defined in regulation 139(5)) was a contributor to the Manchester pension fund immediately before his transfer and has continued in the employment of the body to whom he was transferred.

(2) Where this regulation applies—

(a) references in these Regulations to old statutory provisions must be taken as references to the Manchester pension provisions or to the particular corresponding provision of the Manchester pension provisions, as the case may be;

(b) references to old funds must be taken as references to the Manchester pension fund;

(c) references to contributory employees must be taken as references to contributors to that fund.

(3) The old statutory provisions are—

(a) the Acts of 1937 to 1953, or the regulations made under them (including those provisions applying as amended or extended by any local Act or scheme or together with any such provisions);

(b) the former regulations or a provision in the former regulations.

(4) The Manchester pension fund is the pension fund maintained immediately before 1st April 1974 by the Manchester City Council for the officers and servants of the Manchester Corporation.

(5) The Manchester pension provisions are the provisions of the enactments, and of the schemes and other instruments in force under them immediately before 1st April 1974, relating to the Manchester pension fund (including the provisions of the Acts of 1937 to 1953 and of any relevant instruments under them so far as applicable to that fund).