The Water Reorganisation (Pensions etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 1989

• Citation: S.I. 1989/1381
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Water Reorganisation (Pensions etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 1989 and shall come into force on 1st September 1989.

Section 2 Amendment of Regulations

The Water Reorganisation (Pensions etc.) Regulations are amended–

(1) by the omission from regulation 2 of the definition of“preserved” and of the word“and” immediately preceding that definition;

(2) by the omission from paragraph (3) of regulation 4 of the words–“which is not a preserved pension”; and

(3) by the substitution for regulation 5 of the following regulation–

(5)

(1) Subject to paragraph (2), all liabilities of the Thames Water Authority to pay any pension to, or in respect of, a person who has at any time been an officer or servant of–

(a) the Conservators of the River Thames; or

(b) the Lee Conservancy Catchment Board,

being liabilities which would, but for the 1989 Act, fall to be discharged by that Authority on or after the transfer date, shall on that date become liabilities of the successor company to that authority.

(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to any liability relating to the payment of a pension to, or in respect of, a person, who–

(a) has at any time been an officer or servant of the Lee Conservancy Catchment Board; and

(b) on the transfer date becomes an employee of the National Rivers Authority;

and any such liability shall become a liability of that Authority.