1. The following bodies are admission bodies with whom an administering authority may make an admission agreement—S
(a)a body which provides a public service in the United Kingdom which operates otherwise than for the purposes of gain and has sufficient links with a Scheme employer for the body and the Scheme employer to be regarded as having a community of interest (whether because the operations of the body are dependent on the operations of the Scheme employer or otherwise);
(b)a body, to the funds of which a Scheme employer contributes;
(c)a body representative of—
(i)any Scheme employers; or
(ii)local authorities or officers of local authorities;
(d)a body that is providing or will provide a service or assets in connection with the exercise of a function of a Scheme employer as a result of—
(i)the transfer of the service or assets by means of a contract or other arrangement; or
(ii)any provision in any enactment;
(e)a body which provides a public service in the United Kingdom and is approved in writing by the Scottish Ministers for the purpose of admission to the Scheme.