Natural Resources Body for Wales: responsibility for deferred and pensioner members previously employed by the Environment Agency8C

1

Any provision of these Regulations, the Benefits Regulations or the Transitional Regulations which confers a function on a body by virtue of having been a member's employer shall have effect as if the Natural Resources Body for Wales was the employer of a person to whom paragraph (2) applies at all times when that person was an active member.

2

This paragraph applies to any deferred or pensioner member—

a

who is a member by virtue of—

i

employment with the Environment Agency (including any employment transferred to that Agency) which ended before 1 April 2013; or

ii

employment with the National Rivers Authority which ended before 1 April 1996; and

b

in respect of whom the pension liabilities of the Environment Agency were transferred to the Natural Resources Body for Wales on 1 April 2013 by a transfer scheme made by the Welsh Ministers under section 23 of the Public Bodies Act 2011.