S1. Where a period of time specified in any regulations revoked by these regulations is current at the commencement of these regulations, these regulations have effect as if the corresponding provision of these regulations had been in force when that period began to run.
S2.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), these regulations apply in relation to benefits which—
(a)were before 1st March 1986 being paid, or
(b)may on or after that date become payable,
to or in respect of persons who before that date ceased to hold, or died while in, a local government employment.
(2) Where—
(a)a provision of these regulations (“the new provision”) re-enacts with any modification a provision of any regulations revoked by these regulations (“the former provision”), and
(b)a person to whom a benefit in relation to which the new provision applies was being paid, or may become payable, as mentioned in paragraph (1) is placed in a worse position by the new provision than he would have been in if the former provision had continued to have effect,
he may, by notice in writing given to the appropriate administering authority within 3 months after 1st March 1986, elect that the new provision shall apply in relation to the benefit as if it had re-enacted the former provision without modification.
(3) In this regulation “benefit” includes an allowance, a gratuity, and a return of contributions.
S3. The regulations specified in column (1) of Schedule 20 are revoked to the extent mentioned in column (3).