Regulation K1 Interpretation

In this Part, unless the context otherwise requires—

• “annual pay” means the remuneration received by an employee in respect of his employment with an employing authority during the final year of his employment, except that if the annual remuneration in either of the two consecutive preceding years was higher, then the pay received in either of those years, whichever is the greater, shall be deemed to be the annual pay received by the employee in the final year of his employment with an employing authority;

• “benefits” means any allowance or lump sum payable under this Part;

• “employing authority” means a scheduled body or the Scottish Special Housing Association in whose employment the employee was immediately before he ceased to be employed under the terms of regulation K2;

• “lower earnings limit” means the lower earnings limit prescribed for the purposes of section 4(1) of the Social Security Act 1975^f1 applying at the time the employee ceases to be employed or, if earlier, at the end of the period used to determine annual pay;

• “relevant policy scheme” means the Federated Superannuation System for Universities or the Federated Superannuation Scheme for Nurses and Hospital Officers or a scheme which the Secretary of State approved for the purposes of regulation P13 of the 1974 Regulations or approved under rule 3 or 3A of the Superannuation (Policy and Local Government Schemes) Interchange (Scotland) Rules 1948 to 1971^f2 or a scheme to which any person contributed by reason of regulation N12(2) of the 1974 Regulations;

• “upper earnings limit” means the upper earnings limit prescribed for the purposes of section 4(1) of the Social Security Act 1975 applying at the time the employee ceases to be employed or, if earlier, at the end of the period used to determine annual pay;

• “war service” means 50% of any period after 2nd September 1939 and before 30th June 1950 during which the employee concerned was over 18 years of age and was serving in the armed forces of the Crown, the merchant navy or mercantile marine, or in any of the women’s services specified in Schedule 14 and after which the employee concerned before 1st July 1950 entered the employment of an employing authority and remained in the employment of such a body, without there having been a continuous period of 12 months or more during which he was not employed by an employing authority, but does not include any war service of a kind specified in regulation F2(1) or taken into account for the purposes of Part F of these Regulations.