The Commonwealth Telegraphs (Pension Rights of Cable and Wireless Ltd. Staff) Regulations 1950

1.—(1) These Regulations shall come into operation on the 31st day of March, 1950, and may be cited as the Commonwealth Telegraphs (Pension Rights of Cable and Wireless Ltd. Staff) Regulations, 1950.

(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the respective meanings hereby assigned to them, that is to say:—

“the Act” means the Commonwealth Telegraphs Act, 1949;

“the Company” means Cable and Wireless Limited;

“date of transfer” in relation to any person means the date on which that person, having been employed by the Company immediately beforehand, becomes employed by a new employer;

“National Body” means any department, body, or public corporation nominated or established by a Government for the time being party to the Commonwealth telegraphs agreement for the purpose of acquiring assets of the Company and of operating and maintaining the external telecommunication services of that Government;

“new employer” in relation to any person means the Post Office (which is the National Body of the United Kingdom), or a National Body other than that of the United Kingdom, or Cable and Wireless (Holding) Ltd., as the case may be;

“Commonwealth telegraphs agreement” means the agreement referred to by that name in the Act (being an agreement signed in London on the eleventh day of May, Nineteen hundred and forty-eighty, entered into between His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, His Majesty's Government in Canada, His Majesty's Government in the Commonwealth of Australia, His Majesty's Government in the Dominion of New Zealand, His Majesty's Government in the Union of South Africa, His Majesty's Government in India and the Government of Southern Rhodesia for the purpose of giving full effect to the recommendations of the Commonwealth telecommunications conference held in London in July, 1945);

“the existing pension schemes” means the schemes for the payment of pensions referred to in subsection (8) of section 6 of the Act (which are commonly known as the Eastern and Associated Telegraph Companies' Pension Fund; the Cable and Wireless Widows Fund; the Pacific Cable Board Pension Fund; the Pacific Cable Board Provident Fund; the Eastern and Associated Telegraph Companies' Superannuation Fund; the Post Office Transferees' Pension Fund; the Communications Superannuation Fund; the Indo-European Retirement Fund; and the Marconi Companies' Staff Superannuation Fund).

Other expressions have the same meanings as they have in the Act.

(3) The Interpretation Act, 1889, shall apply to the interpretation of these Regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.