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Paragraph 4 Cancellation of deferred pension

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

Where—

(a)

a deferred pension awarded under rule 3 is not being paid; and

(b)

the person entitled to it is again employed by an authority in a role which entitles him to rejoin this Scheme, and

(c)

he rejoins the Scheme,

he may, at any time before leaving the authority’s employment, by written notice given to the authority, instruct the authority to cancel his deferred pension.

(2)

Where an authority cancel a deferred pension, they shall add to the pensionable service used for the calculation of the pension to which the person becomes entitled on leaving the service, the pensionable service used for the calculation of the deferred pension.

(3)

Where the authority from which a person is entitled to receive a deferred pension (“the first authority”) is not the authority by which he is employed (“the employing authority”), he must by written notice given to the first authority instruct them—

(a)

to cancel the deferred pension, and

(b)

to make arrangements with the employing authority for the transfer of his pensionable service in accordance with rule 12 of Chapter 4 of Part 12.