Persons transferred under an order under section 34 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1975 or in consequence of section 1 of the Education (Mentally Handicapped Children) (Scotland) Act 1974
135.—(1) This regulation applies to any person who was transferred to the employment of a scheduled body under the 1987 Regulations, which body or its successor is a Scheme employer (“the new employment”) by or under an order made under section 34 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1975(1) or in consequence of section 1 of the Education (Mentally Handicapped Children) (Scotland) Act 1974(2) and was immediately before that transfer in an employment (“the old employment”) in which he was an officer within the meaning of the Health Service Regulations.
(2) Subject to sub-paragraph (4), such a person is entitled to count as a period of membership any service which for the purposes of the Health Service Regulations he was entitled to count in relation to the old employment as, or as a period of, contributing service.
(3) For paragraph (2)–
(a)any period of part-time service is treated as though it were whole-time service for a proportionately reduced period; and
(b)except for the purposes of–
(i)determining whether a person is entitled to, or to payment of, a benefit; or
(ii)ascertaining, where notice was given under Schedule 2 to the Benefits Regulations or regulation D6 or D7 of the 1974 Regulations, the maximum length of any additional period to which regulation 54 applies,
any service which was reckonable service under the Health Service Regulations for all purposes (other than for the purpose of determining whether any benefit was payable) as a period of contributing service at half its length is counted at half its length.
(4) Where, immediately before he was transferred, such a person as is mentioned in paragraph (1) was a person in respect of whom the Secretary of State–
(a)paid contributions under regulation 46 of the Health Service Regulations (persons subject to non-statutory superannuation schemes and arrangements); or
(b)carried out any such scheme or arrangements as are referred to in that regulation,
then, that person shall not be subject to any provisions of these Regulations except those contained in this paragraph, and the body to which that person was transferred or its successor body, shall–
(a)if immediately before 16th May 1974 the Secretary of State was paying under regulation 46 of the Health Service Regulations in respect of that person the contributions authorised or required by the relevant scheme to be paid by the employer, pay those contributions; and
(b)deduct from the person’s pay the amount of any contribution required by the scheme or under the arrangements to be paid by the employee.
(5) In relation to a person who gave notice under regulation N12(3)(e) of the 1974 Regulations that he did not wish to avail himself of the benefits provided under those Regulations and to whom regulation H5(8) of the 1987 Regulations applied immediately before the commencement date, these Regulations–
(a)have effect as if they conferred on him rights corresponding to those which he would have enjoyed if he had remained subject to the provisions of the Health Service Regulations; and
(b)continue so to have effect so long as he is employed without a disqualifying break of service by a Scheme employer on duties reasonably comparable to those on which he was engaged immediately before he was transferred.
(6) Where paragraph (5) applies, the modifications mentioned in paragraphs (7) and (8) apply.
(7) Regulations 109 and 110 (abatement of retirement pensions during new employment) apply instead of regulation 40 of the Health Service Regulations and–
(a)as if “retirement pension” included a pension payable by virtue of paragraph (5); and
(b)in any case where the final pay of a former employment must be ascertained as if entitlement to such a pension were not an entitlement under the Scheme.
(8) Regulations 111 (forfeiture) and 112 (interim payments directions) have effect instead of regulation 54 of the Health Service Regulations.
(9) In this regulation “the Health Service Regulations” are the National Health Service Superannuation (Scotland) Regulations 1961 to 1974(3) as in force immediately before 16th May 1974.