(1) Where a person was on the 1st April 1965 taken into the civil service of the State as an officer of the Ministry of Overseas Development after having been employed by a Tropical Research Unit, and his employment was, in the opinion of the Treasury, of the same nature and for the same purpose as his employment in the Tropical Research Unit, his service in the employment of the Tropical Research Unit before the 1st April 1965 may be reckoned for the purposes of the Superannuation Act 1965 as employment in an unestablished capacity within the meaning of section 99(1) of that Act.
(2) Where a person to whom the foregoing paragraph applies was, before the date on which he was taken into the service of the State, subject to a superannuation scheme operated under the Federated Superannuation System for Universities or the Agricultural Research Council Clerical and Technical Superannuation Scheme, it shall be a condition of the making of any payment under the Superannuation Act in respect of that person's service before that date, so far as that payment is dependent on the provisions of the foregoing paragraph, that there has been assigned, to such person and in such manner as the Treasury may direct, the policy of insurance purchased for that person under the superannuation scheme.
(3) These Rules shall not have effect so as to authorise an increase in an annual superannuation allowance or pension so far as the allowance or pension is payable in respect of a period before the coming into operation of these Rules.