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290. After regulation 8B of the Local Government Pension Scheme (Administration) Regulations 2008(1) insert—
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.”