Explanatory note

These Rules amend the Superannuation (Civil Service and Local Government) Interchange Rules 1968, which provide for the aggregation of service and a single superannuation award for persons who transfer from employment in the civil service to employment in local government or in the opposite direction. The amendments are consequent upon the replacement of the Superannuation Act 1965 by the principal civil service pension scheme made under section 1 of the Superannuation Act 1972.

Under the powers conferred by section 2(5) of the Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1948, the 1968 Rules are applied to persons who became, or ceased to be, employed in the civil service between 1st June 1972 and the coming into operation of these Rules as pensionable civil servants under the principal civil service pension scheme, but not as established civil servants.