Employees of public airport companies
2.—(1) Where a passenger transport authority or a principal council have formed a company in pursuance of section 13 of the Airports Act 1986(1)—
(a)that authority, or
(b)any principal council of which the company is for the purposes of Part II of that Act an associated company,
may, subject to paragraph (3), with the agreement of the company, by a statutory resolution resolve that every qualified employee of the company shall for the purposes of the principal Regulations be deemed to be in employment with the body passing the resolution.
(2) A qualified employee is one who—
(a)during a period ending no earlier than 12 months before the start of his employment with the company was in an employment with the body passing the resolution in which he was a pensionable employee, or
(b)immediately before the start of his employment with the company was in an employment with that body in which, if he had continued in it, he might have become a pensionable employee.
(3) No resolution may be passed under this regulation after a scheme has come into force under section 15 of the Airports Act 1986.
(4) in this regulation“principal council”means the council of a non-metropolitan county, of a district, or of a London borough.