The Local Government Pension Scheme (Transitional Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 1998

Deferred members and pensioners: general

4.—(1) Except where these Regulations provide otherwise, in relation to the persons specified in paragraph (2)–

(a) the saved provisions shall continue to apply;

(b) the common provisions shall apply; and

(c) Part II (except regulations 48 and 49) and Parts III and V of the 1998 Regulations shall not apply (except in so far as they affect the common provisions).

(2) Those persons are–

(a) any person who immediately before the commencement date was a deferred member or a pensioner member and does not on or after that date become an active member;

(b) any person who is or may become entitled to any benefit under the Scheme in respect of such a person;

(c) any other person whose entitlement to the payment of any pension or other benefit has arisen before that date or who may become so entitled by virtue of the death of any person who has died before that date.

(d) any person who becomes a deferred member after the commencement date by virtue of an election made under regulation E2A(1) of the 1987 Regulations.