The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013

Local Government Pension Scheme (Administration) Regulations 2008 E+W

290.  After regulation 8B of the Local Government Pension Scheme (Administration) Regulations 2008 M1 insert—

“Natural Resources Body for Wales: responsibility for deferred and pensioner members previously employed by the Environment Agency

8C.— (1) Any provision of these Regulations, the Benefits Regulations or the Transitional Regulations which confers a function on a body by virtue of having been a member's employer shall have effect as if the Natural Resources Body for Wales was the employer of a person to whom paragraph (2) applies at all times when that person was an active member.

(2) This paragraph applies to any deferred or pensioner member—

(a) who is a member by virtue of—

(i) employment with the Environment Agency (including any employment transferred to that Agency) which ended before 1 April 2013; or

(ii) employment with the National Rivers Authority which ended before 1 April 1996; and

(b) in respect of whom the pension liabilities of the Environment Agency were transferred to the Natural Resources Body for Wales on 1 April 2013 by a transfer scheme made by the Welsh Ministers under section 23 of the Public Bodies Act 2011.”

Marginal Citations

M1 S.I. 2008/239 as amended by S.I. 2008/1083, S.I. 2008/2425, S.I. 2008/2989, S.I. 2008/3245, S.I. 2009/447, S.I. 2009/1025, S.I. 2009/3150, S.I. 2010/528, S.I. 2010/713 (W. 69), S.I. 2010/1172, S.I. 2010/2090, S.I. 2012/961, S.I. 2012/1989.