The Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 1997

General eligibility for membership: employees of Scheme employers etc.

4.—(1) A person may only be an active member if this regulation, regulation 5 or Chapter I of Part V enables him to be one and he is not prevented by regulation 6.

(2) A person may be a member if he is employed by a Scheme employer.

(3) A Scheme employer is a body which is listed in Schedule 2 or is a resolution body.

(4) But a person who is employed by a resolution body may only be a member if he is covered by a relevant resolution.

(5) A relevant resolution is a statutory resolution by a resolution body stating that a specified employee or a class of employees to which he belongs may be a member.

(6) These are resolution bodies—

(a) the Board of Governors of the Museum of London;

(b) any other body which is a precepting authority, a levying body or a section 75 body;

(c) a passenger transport executive;

(d) a designated institution which immediately before designation was assisted or maintained by a local education authority;

(e) the governing body of a grant-maintained school or a grant-maintained special school (other than a school within Schedule 2);

(f) a company under the control of a body listed in that Schedule.