The Railway Pensions (Protection and Designation of Schemes) Order 1994

Participation and acquisition of relevant pension rights

5.  None of the persons mentioned in paragraph 7(2) (protection — supplementary provisions) of Schedule 11 nor any servant or agent of any such person nor, where any such person is a body corporate, any person who controls that body corporate, shall prevent a protected employee from—

(a) participating in, or transferring the transfer value in respect of such of his relevant pension rights, other than any relevant pension rights acquired on the death of a protected person to, an occupational pension scheme provided by his employer in accordance with article 4;

(b) acquiring relevant pension rights in that scheme which are no less favourable than the relevant pension rights which he had under his designated scheme.