The Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 1995

7.  In relation to an employee of a body the greater part of whose area falls within one of the metropolitan counties mentioned in this paragraph, the appropriate pension fund is the fund maintained—

(a)in the case of Greater Manchester, by Tameside district council;

(b)in the case of Merseyside, by Wirral district council;

(c)in the case of Tyne and Wear, by South Tyneside district council;

(d)in the case of West Midlands, by Wolverhampton district council; and

(e)in the case of West Yorkshire, by Bradford district council.