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Paragraph 8

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

(1)

In the case of a person who—

(a)

has become entitled to a retirement pension under the Scheme, (otherwise than by virtue of regulation D19(1)), and

(b)

enters further employment with any LGPS employer in which he becomes a member, the period in respect of which he became entitled to the retirement pension counts as a period to which this Part of this Schedule applies in relation to the further employment.

(2)

In the case of a person who—

(a)

after becoming entitled on ceasing to hold an employment (“the first employment”) to a retirement pension by virtue of regulation E2(1)(c) of the 1986 regulations (or any corresponding previous provision) enters further employment with a LGPS employer in which he becomes a member; and

(b)

in respect of his ceasing to hold the first employment has received a return of the whole or a part of the aggregate amount of his contributions (within the meaning of regulation C22) to the appropriate pension fund,

the period in respect of which the return of contributions was made counts as a period to which this Part of this Schedule applies.

(3)

In sub-paragraph (1) “retirement pension” includes—

(a)

a short service grant under the Benefits regulations,

(b)

an ill-health grant under regulation D8 of these regulations or under regulation E4 of the 1986 regulations,

(c)

a superannuation allowance under Part I of the Act of 1937, and

(d)

an annual pension under the former regulations.