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71.—(1) If a member who is paying SCAVCs leaves his employment and enters a new employment in which he is also a member, he may elect to have the accumulated value of the invested additional contributions specified in regulation 64(2) (as it applies by virtue of regulation 70(3)) used—
(a)to make a contribution to the arrangements the new employing authority have made under this Chapter for AVCs, or
(b)if—
(i)his new employing authority have established arrangements under this Chapter for the payment of SCAVCs, and
(ii)he has made an application to contribute under those arrangements which has been accepted,
to make a contribution to the new employer’s SCAVCs arrangements.
(2) Such an election must be made by notice in writing to the member's new employing authority and may only be made if the member enters the new employment before the expiry of the period of one month and one day beginning with the date he left the former employment.
(3) The new employing authority must send a copy of any election under this regulation to the appropriate administering authority.
(4) Where an election is made under paragraph (1)(a), it must specify—
(a)whether the member wishes the election to be treated as an election under regulation 60(1) in respect of the member's new employment, and
(b)if he does, the matters which require to be specified in such an election.
(5) Where an election is made under paragraph (1) and different authorities are the member's appropriate administering authority in the two employments, the former appropriate administering authority must transfer to the new authority a sum equal to the accumulated value of the member's invested additional contributions.
(6) Where the election is made under paragraph (1)(a), the new appropriate administering authority must apply and invest the sum received as mentioned in regulation 64, together with any additional contributions falling to be so invested under that regulation by virtue of contributions made in respect of the new employment by virtue of any election which is treated as made under paragraph (4).
(7) Where the election is made under paragraph (1)(b)—
(a)if the new authority consent, the former authority must assign to them their rights under any pension policy under regulation 70(1) in respect of the member which are assignable; and
(b)the new appropriate administering authority must apply and invest the sum received in the same manner as any SCAVCs made in respect of the new employment (other than those used to provide death benefits).
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