The Superannuation (Admission to Schedule 1 to the Superannuation Act 1972) Order 1997

Made: 5th February 1997

Laid before Parliament: 5th February 1997

Coming into force: 26th February 1997

The Minister for the Civil Service, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 1(5), (7) and (8)(a) of the Superannuation Act 1972[^f00001] and now vested in him[^f00002], hereby makes the following Order:—

1

This Order may be cited as the Superannuation (Admission to Schedule 1 to the Superannuation Act 1972) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 26th February 1997, but shall have effect from 1st July 1994.

2

Section 1 of the Superannuation Act 1972 shall apply to persons serving in employment which is remunerated out of the National Lottery Distribution Fund, being a fund established by the National Lottery etc. Act 1993[^f00003].

3

Employment by the National Lottery Charities Board is hereby added to the employments listed in Schedule 1 to the Superannuation Act 1972.

Signed

Roger Freeman — Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster for the Minister for the Civil Service — 5th February 1997

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order provides that section 1 of the Superannuation Act 1972 shall apply to persons serving in employment which is remunerated out of the National Lottery Distribution Fund. It adds employment of staff by the National Lottery Charities Board, which is funded from the National Lottery Distribution Fund, to the employments and offices listed in Schedule 1 to the Superannuation Act 1972 so that section 1 of that Act (under which the Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme, the Civil Service Additional Voluntary Contribution Scheme and the Civil Service Compensation Scheme have been made) may apply to them.

Provision for the appointment of the staff of the National Lottery Charities Board was made by section 37 of the National Lottery etc. Act 1993 and Schedule 5 thereto.

Under the power conferred by section 1(8)(a) of the Superannuation Act 1972 this Order takes effect from 1st July 1994.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1972 c. 11.

[^f00002]: See article 2(1)(c) of the Transfer of Functions (Minister for the Civil Service and Treasury) Order 1981 (S.I. 1981/1670) and article 3 of the Transfer of Functions (Treasury and Minister for the Civil Service) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/269).

[^f00003]: 1993 c. 39, section 21(1).