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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/superannuation-civil-service-and-local-government-interchange-rules-1968/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1968/72",
  "legislation_title": "The Superannuation (Civil Service and Local Government) Interchange Rules 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/superannuation-civil-service-and-local-government-interchange-rules-1968",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "These Rules consolidate with amendments the Superannuation (Transfers between the Civil Service and Local Government) Rules 1950 and 1955, and provide for the aggregation of service and a single superannuation award where persons transfer within a prescribed period from established service in the Civil Service to employment in local government or vice versa. Where such a transfer is made, the person is enabled, subject to the payment of an appropriate transfer value, to reckon previous service for pension under the superannuation scheme to which he transfers.\nThe principal amendments give the Treasury and the employing authority discretion to extend the permissible length of any break between employments and the time limits for compliance with certain provisions. But where a person retains superannuation contributions (repaid on leaving local government employment) for more than 12 months, he may be required to pay interest. There are also minor amendments consequential on these provisions.\nIn addition, officers who transferred from employment in local government to the Civil Service and whose superannuation benefits are subject to the Local Government and Civil Service (Superannuation) Rules 1936 are given the right (subject to the consent of the Treasury and the appropriate authorities) to elect to receive benefits under these Rules. (These officers had no right of election under the Rules of 1950).\nThe Rules are given retrospective effect to a limited extent under the express powers of, and subject to the safeguards required by, section 2(5) of the Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1948.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1968/72/note",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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