1. These Regulations may be cited as the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 1st April 1998.

2.-(1) Schedule 1 contains Schedule 1 (Interpretation) and Schedule 1A (Interpretation for pension sharing on divorce) contain (SI2000/3025) definitions of expressions used in these Regulations which apply for their interpretation unless the context indicates that they have a different meaning.

(2) Unless that is so, references to members and membership generally refer to active members and active membership respectively.

(3) The definitions of "AVC insurance company" and "Reference banks" in Schedule 1 must be read with -

(a) section 22 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;

(b) any relevant order under that section; and

(c) Schedule 2 to that Act. (SI2001/3649)

3. These Regulations apply to the Isles of Scilly as if they were a district in the county of Cornwall and the council of the Isles of Scilly were a council of that district.