# The Superannuation (English Local Government and Northern Ireland) Interchange (Amendment) Rules 1958, Article 4


In rule 1 of the principal rules, in paragraph (2) thereof—
(a) there shall be inserted the following definitions:—
“ `the Act of 1953' means the Local Government Superannuation Act, 1953;
`added years' means—
(a) in relation to a person who is, or is deemed to be, a contributory employee or local Act contributor, any additional years of service reckonable by him under regulation 12 of the benefits regulations, any corresponding provision of a local Act scheme or that regulation or any such provision as aforesaid as applied by regulations made under the Third or Fourth Schedule to the Act of 1953 and includes any additional years of service which, having been granted under any such provision, or under any similar provision contained in any other enactment or scheme, have subsequently become and are reckonable under or by virtue of rules made under section 2 of the Act or any other enactment;
(b) in relation to a pensionable employee of a Northern Ireland employing authority, any additional years of service of the nature of additional years of service referred to in paragraph (a) of this definition which have been granted in, or have otherwise become reckonable in, his employment under the Northern Ireland employing authority;
`the benefits regulations' means the Local Government Superannuation (Benefits) Regulations, 1954;
`the transfer value regulations' means the Local Government Superannuation (Transfer Value) Regulations, 1954;
`voluntary contributions' means—
(a) in relation to a person who has become a pensionable employee of a Northern Ireland employing authority after leaving employment in which he was or was deemed to be a contributory employee or local Act contributor, payments made voluntarily by him for the purpose of securing benefits for his widow, children or other dependants and payments (other than completed payments, that is to say, payments made in respect of a liability which has been wholly discharged) of any of the following categories—
(i) additional contributory payments of the kind referred to in subsections (3) and (4) of section 2 of the Act of 1953;
(ii) any similar payments made under a local Act scheme as a condition of reckoning any period of employment as service or as a period of contribution for the purposes of the scheme or, where the local Act scheme provides for the reckoning of non-contributing service, as contributing service for the purposes of the scheme;
(iii) any payments made for the purpose of increasing the length at which any period of service or of contribution would be reckonable for the purpose of calculating a benefit under a local Act scheme;
(iv) any payments made in respect of added years;
(b) in relation to a person who has entered employment in which he is or is deemed to be a contributory employee or local Act contributor after leaving employment in which he was a pensionable employee of a Northern Ireland employing authority, any payments similar in character to any such payments as aforesaid for which provision was made in the pension scheme administered by the Committee or the Corporation, as the case may be; ”;
(b) for the definition of “national service” there shall be substituted the following definition:—
“ `national service' in relation to any person means service of a description specified in the First Schedule to the Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act, 1951, and includes any period immediately following the termination thereof during which (with the consent, in the case of a justices' clerk, of the authority by whom he was appointed, and in the case of any other person, of the authority or person by whom he was employed before undertaking that service) the person continues in similar service;”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1958/2136/article/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/superannuation-english-local-government-and-northern-ireland-interchange-amendment-rules-1958/article-4
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