MembershipN.I.
6.—(1) References in these regulations to a member shall have effect as respects any time before the commencement date as references to a pensionable employee (and related expressions shall have effect accordingly).
(2) Nothing in these regulations affects the date of the commencement of the membership of any person who is a member immediately before the commencement date.
(3) Where immediately before the commencement date any person—
(a)is eligible to be and is a member of the Scheme, or
(b)has the right to make an election to join the Scheme,
by virtue of any provision of the 1992 regulations which is revoked by these regulations and is not re-enacted by them or is re-enacted with modifications, he shall notwithstanding the revocation or modification remain eligible to be a member, or as the case may be to make such an election, subject to the same terms and conditions as under that provision.
(4) Without prejudice to the previous provisions of this paragraph—
(a)no person who is a member of the Scheme immediately before the commencement date shall be ineligible for membership of the Scheme by virtue of anything in regulation B3 (definitions of whole-time, part-time and variable-time employment);
(b)notwithstanding the revocation of paragraph 3 of Part III of Schedule 2 to the 1992 regulations, any person to whom that paragraph applied immediately before the commencement date shall continue to be treated as there mentioned.
Commencement Information
I1Sch. M2 para. 6 in operation at 1.8.2000, see reg. A1(1)