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4(1)A person who—U.K.
(a)in accordance with a nuclear transfer scheme, or with any transfer arrangements, becomes an employee of a relevant public sector employer, and
(b)immediately before the transfer of his employment takes effect, is a participant in a UKAEA pension scheme,
is not to cease to be a participant in that pension scheme by reason only that he has ceased to be employed by the transferor.
(2)A person falling within sub-paragraph (1)(a) but not within sub-paragraph (1)(b) who, immediately before the transfer of his employment takes effect—
(a)is eligible to become a participant in a UKAEA pension scheme, or
(b)would be eligible to become such a participant had he attained an age, or fulfilled a condition, specified in the pension scheme,
is not precluded from being, or becoming, eligible to participate in that pension scheme by reason only that he has ceased to be employed by the transferor.
(3)Sub-paragraphs (1) and (2) do not apply in relation to the transfer of a person’s employment unless—
(a)the transfer is made for NDA purposes; or
(b)the transfer is a transfer to the Civil Nuclear Police Authority.
(4)Sub-paragraphs (1) and (2) do not apply in relation to the transfer of a person’s employment that takes effect on or after the designated date unless—
(a)that person has satisfied the qualification requirement throughout the period beginning immediately before that date and ending immediately before the transfer takes effect; or
(b)the transfer is a transfer to the Civil Nuclear Police Authority.
(5)The qualification requirement is satisfied by a person for the purposes of sub-paragraph (4) at any time when—
(a)he is a participant in a UKAEA pension scheme;
(b)he is eligible to become such a participant; or
(c)he would be eligible to become such a participant had he attained an age, or fulfilled a condition, specified in the pension scheme;
and it is immaterial for the purposes of that sub-paragraph that the requirement is satisfied at different times in the period in question by reference to different paragraphs of this sub-paragraph.
(6)A UKAEA pension scheme may apply to persons who are—
(a)persons to whom it would not otherwise apply, and
(b)entitled to participate in that pension scheme by virtue of sub-paragraph (1) or (2),
as it applies to persons to whom it applies apart from this paragraph.
(7)A UKAEA pension scheme may also apply to persons who (without being persons to whom it would apply apart from this sub-paragraph) are employees of a publicly controlled company in a case in which—
(a)that company is a company to which employees have been transferred in accordance with a nuclear transfer scheme or with transfer arrangements;
(b)those transfers, if they were made in accordance with transfer arrangements, were made for NDA purposes;
(c)the employees transferred were or included employees who, immediately after the transfer, were entitled by virtue of sub-paragraph (1) or (2) to participate in a UKAEA pension scheme or to an actual or potential eligibility to participate; and
(d)the employees to whom the scheme is applied do not include persons who were employees of the company immediately before the occasion or (as the case may be) first occasion on which a transfer of the employment of a person so entitled was made in accordance with a nuclear transfer scheme or transfer arrangements.
(8)A person is not entitled to participate in a UKAEA pension scheme by virtue of any of sub-paragraphs (1) to (7) at any time after he has ceased to be able to remain, or to become, a participant in that scheme as a consequence of having agreed to become a participant in—
(a)a pension scheme maintained by the relevant public sector employer to whom his employment was transferred; or
(b)a pension scheme maintained by another person in which he is able to become a participant by reference to his employment with that employer.
(9)If a relevant public sector employer to which the employment of any person is transferred in accordance with a nuclear transfer scheme or with transfer arrangements—
(a)is a publicly controlled company at the time when the employment is transferred, but
(b)subsequently ceases to be a publicly controlled company,
then, from the time when it so ceases, no person employed by that company shall be entitled, by virtue of that employment, to participate in a UKAEA pension scheme or to be or to become eligible to participate in such a scheme.
(10)In this paragraph “transferor”, in relation to a transfer of employment, means the person by whom the transferred employee was employed immediately before the transfer takes effect.
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I1Sch. 8 para. 4 in force at 5.10.2004 by S.I. 2004/2575, art. 2(1), Sch. 1
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