1. This Order may be cited as the Superannuation (Museums and Galleries Commission) Order 1986 and shall come into operation on 1st January 1987 (hereinafter called "the commencement date").

2. The Standing Commission on Museums and Galleries is hereby removed from Schedule 1 to the 1972 Act.

3. Employment as a member of the staff of the Museums and Galleries Commission is hereby added to the employments listed in Schedule 1 to the 1972 Act.

4. For the purposes of any scheme made under section 1 of the 1972 Act, there shall be deemed to have been no break at the commencement date in the employment of a present member of the staff of the Standing Commission on Museums and Galleries who, as from that date, is employed by the Museums and Galleries Commission.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Employment with the Standing Commission on Museums and Galleries is an employment by a body listed in Schedule 1 to the Superannuation Act 1972 and so falls within those employments to which the principal civil service pension scheme (made under section 1 of that Act) may apply. This body will cease to exist, when the Museums and Galleries Commission is established by Royal Charter on 1 January 1987. This Order therefore removes the Standing Commission on Museums and Galleries from Schedule 1 to the 1972 Act, and adds the Museums and Galleries Commission to the said Schedule in each case with effect from 1st January 1987. Paragraph 4 of the Order provides for continuity of reckonable service of the present staff of the Standing Commission on Museums and Galleries under the principal civil service pension scheme.