The Superannuation (Public Offices) (Amendment) Rules 1972

• Citation: S.I. 1972/1762
• Sections: 4

Section 1

These Rules may be cited as the Superannuation (Public Offices) (Amendment) Rules 1972, and shall come into operation on 19th December 1972.

Section 2

The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply for the interpretation of these Rules as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.

Section 3

The provisions of the Superannuation (Public Offices) Rules 1967 as amended , specified in column 1 of the Schedule to these Rules shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in column 2 of that Schedule.

Section 6

Where—

(a) the superannuation scheme applicable to the last public office in which a person was employed contains a provision corresponding to section 25 of the Superannuation Act 1965 (which provided for the reckoning of service in certain places overseas at one and a half times its actual length); and

(b) he has rendered service in a public office (other than his last public office) to which that provision would have applied if that service had been rendered in his last public office,

any provision in that superannuation scheme corresponding to section 25(3) of the Superannuation Act 1965 (which provided that for each completed year of actual service to which the section applies the retiring age should be reduced by three months, but not so as to reduce it below 55 years) shall have effect in relation to the service in question as if it were service in the last public office in which he was employed.