Regulation F1 Interpretation, etc.

In this Part—

• “deceased employee” means a person with war service who died after 31st March 1978 and in relation to whom the conditions specified in regulation F3(2) to (8) were or are deemed to have been satisfied when he died;

• “excess remuneration” means, in relation to a retired officer of the armed forces of the Crown who is re-employed in those forces, any service pension drawn in respect of such period of re-employment, or any addition to the normal pay attaching to the post in which the officer is re-employed which is granted by reason of the officer’s former employment in those forces;

• “non-effective pay” includes naval, military and air force pensions, retired pay, and gratuities (other than war gratuities to which section 23 of the Finance (No. 2) Act 1945^f1, which exempted war gratuities from income tax, applies and gratuities paid to former members of the Palestine Police Force);

• “occupational pension scheme” means any scheme or arrangement comprised in one or more instruments or agreements and having, or being capable of having, effect in relation to one or more descriptions or categories of employments so as to provide benefits, in the form of pensions or otherwise, payable on termination of service, or on death or retirement, to or in respect of earners with qualifying service in an employment of any such description or category; and

• “public service scheme” means the Universities' Superannuation Scheme, and any occupational pension scheme—

  1. (a)

     which cannot come into force, or be amended, without the scheme or amendment being approved by a Minister of the Crown or government department; and

  2. (b)

     which includes provisions for any such whole-time service as is described in regulation F2(1), rendered before becoming entitled to participate in the scheme, to be reckonable as service in respect of which benefits are payable under the scheme;

• “war service provisions”, in relation to a public service scheme, means provisions of the kind specified in paragraph (b) of the definition of the latter expression;

and references to war service are to be construed in accordance with regulation F2.