In this Schedule—

• “date of transfer” means the date on which an amalgamation scheme comes into operation or, where different provisions of the scheme come into operation on different dates, the last of those dates;

• “pension” includes a lump sum and a gratuity;

• “statutory provision” means a provision, whether of a general or a special nature, contained in, or in any document made or issued under, any Act, whether of a general or a special nature;

• “transferred area” means a police area which becomes comprised in a combined police area by virtue of an amalgamated scheme, or which is divided into two or more police areas by virtue of a scheme amending or revoking such a scheme;

• “transferred force” means the police force of a transferred area;

• “new area” means, in relation to any person or property, the police area in which a transferred area becomes comprised by virtue of an amalgamation scheme or, in the case of an area which is divided into two or more police areas by virtue of a scheme amending or revoking an amalgamation scheme, such of those areas as may be prescribed by that scheme;

• “new force” means the police force of a new area