
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Commonwealth Telegraphs (Pension
Rights of Former Cable and Wireless Ltd. Staff) Regulations 1971 and shall
come into operation on the 2nd March 1971, but shall then have effect from
the 30th September 1969, and shall be construed accordingly.
2 

(1) In these Regulations, unless
the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings
hereby respectively assigned to them:
 “the Act” means 
the Post Office Act 1969;

 “the Minister” means 
the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications, and “the Ministry”
 shall be construed accordingly;

 “the pension schemes”
means the schemes set out in the Schedule hereto, being the schemes
referred to in section 49(1)(a)
of the Act;
 “a person to whom these Regulations apply”
 means a person who:
(a) on the passing of the Act was serving in the
Department of the Postmaster General, and
(b) on 1st October 1969 (being the day appointed for the purposes of
the Act) becomes employed by the Post Office or continues in the service of
the Crown by virtue of employment in the Ministry or the Department for National
Savings, and
(c) immediately before the 1st October 1969 is a member
of any of the pension schemes.
 “the Post Office” means the authority established under section 6
of the Post
Office Act 1969.
(2) The Interpretation Act 1889,
applies for the interpretation of these Regulations as it applies for the
interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
3 
Every person to whom these Regulations apply shall be entitled
to remain a member of each of the pension schemes of which he was a member
immediately before the appointed day, so long as:
(a) he remains employed by
the Post Office or in the Ministry or the Department for National Savings,
as the case may be, and
(b) the trustees or other persons
administering the schemes receive the contributions (if any) which he is from
time to time liable to make to the scheme, and such contributions as may be
made in respect of him in accordance with Regulation 4.

4 
The trustees or other persons administering the pension schemes
shall accept as employers' contributions in respect of a person to whom these
Regulations apply, in lieu of the employers' contributions falling to be made
in respect of him by the Postmaster General under the scheme or under Regulation 5
of the Commonwealth
Telegraphs (Pension Rights of Cable and Wireless Ltd. Staff) Regulations 1950
,
contributions made by the Post Office, the Minister or the Department for
National Savings.
5 

(1) The service of every person
to whom these Regulations apply in such employment as is mentioned in Regulation 3 shall, so long as
he remains a member of any of the pension schemes, be treated as pensionable
service for the purposes of each of those schemes of which he remains a member
and of any statutory provisions, trust deeds, rules, and other instruments
relating thereto, but not for any other purpose.
(2) In relation to a person
who by virtue of these Regulations remains a member of the Cable and Wireless
Staff Dependants' Fund, any reference in any instrument relating thereto to
that person's dying prior to or after his being retired from pensionable service
in the Department of the Postmaster General (however described) shall be construed
as including a reference to his dying prior to or after his being retired
from pensionable service in the Post Office, the Ministry, or the Department
for National Savings.
6 
The pension schemes and the said statutory provisions and instruments
shall have effect as if the provisions of these Regulations were terms thereof
notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained therein.
Christopher Chataway
Minister of Posts and Telecommunications
Dated 4th January 1971Given under the official seal of the Minister for the Civil Service
on 8th January 1971.
K. H. McNeill
Authorised by the Minister for the Civil Service

THE SCHEDULE


 Eastern and Associated Telegraph Companies' Pension Fund
 Cable and Wireless Widows Fund
 Pacific Cable Board Pension Fund
 Pacific Cable Board Provident Fund
 Eastern and Associated Telegraph Companies' Superannuation
Fund
 Post Office Transferees' Pension Fund
 Communications Superannuation Fund
 Indo-European Retirement Fund
 Marconi Companies' Staff Superannuation Fund
 Cable and Wireless Pension Fund
 Cable and Wireless Staff Dependants' Fund
