- active pensioner
means a person who was a pensioner member and an active member immediately before the commencement date and continues as an active member on that date by virtue of regulation 3;
- Appropriate pension fund
means the appropriate fund within the meaning of the 1997 regulations;”
- benefit
includes a return of contributions and any pension payable to a widow, widower or any dependant by virtue of a surrender.
- non-participating employment
has the same meaning as in section 56(1) of the National Insurance Act 1965;
- pensionable remuneration
means pay within the meaning of regulation 13 of the LGPS Regulations;”
- rejoining deferred member
means any person who— (a) immediately before the commencement date was a deferred member (or would have been apart from being a pensioner member) but was not an active member, and (b) becomes an active member again on or after that date.
- rejoining pensioner
means a person who was a pensioner member but not an active member immediately before the commencement date, and becomes an active member again on or after that date (otherwise than in an employment which is a new employment to which paragraph 3(1) applies);
- relevant benefit
means a benefit payable to, or in respect of, a person who before the commencement date— (a) left an employment in which he was an active member (whether or not he has subsequently become an active member again);
- the 1995 Regulations
means the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 1995;
- the 1997 provisions
means the 1997 regulations, these Regulations and the Investment Regulations;
- the 1997 regulations
means the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 1997;”
- the commencement date
means 1st April 1998;
- the common provisions
means regulations 49 and 50 and Part IV of the 1997 regulations and the Investment Regulations;
- the former provisions
means any provisions which by virtue of these Regulations cease to apply to any person at any time, and
- the Investment Regulations
means regulations L4 to L8 of the 1995 regulations;
- the LGPS Regulations
means the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 1997”
- the old provisions
means the 1995 regulations, the additional regulations specified in Schedule 1 (so far as they relate to the Scheme) and any other regulations relating to the Scheme and made under section 7 or 12 of the Superannuation Act 1972, so far as they continue in effect;
- the period of overseas employment
means any period which, if Part II of the Superannuation (Local Government and Overseas Employment) Interchange Rules 1969 had applied to him, would have been a period of overseas employment (within the meaning of those rules).
- the replaced provisions
means regulations C1, C21, H1, H3 to H7, M4, M5, M6 and Parts J, K and L of and Schedules C1, K1, K2 and L1 to the 1995 regulations (but not including the Investment Regulations);
- the saved provisions
means the old provisions (other than the replaced provisions), in so far as they remain capable of having effect and subject to the provisions of these Regulations and, in particular, the amendments specified in Schedule 3.
- the Transitional Regulations
means the Local Government Pension Scheme (Tran sitional Provisions) Regulations 1997;”