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Article 1

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(1)

These rules may be cited as the Superannuation (English Local Government and Northern Ireland) Interchange Rules, 1952, and shall come into operation on the sixteenth day of May, 1952.

(2)

In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them—

  • “the Minister” means the Minister of Housing and Local Government;

  • “the Act” means the Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1948;

  • “the Act of 1937” means the Local Government Superannuation Act, 1937;

  • “the Committee” means the Northern Ireland Local Government Officers' Superannuation Committee;

  • “the Corporation” means the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Citizens of the City of Belfast acting by the Council and includes a Committee thereof;

  • “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 the person with the consent of the authority or body by whom he was employed before undertaking that service continues in similar service;

  • “Northern Ireland employing authority” means the Corporation and any employing authority within the meaning of the regulations made by the Ministry of Health and Local Government for Northern Ireland under section 2 (1) of the Local Government (Superannuation) Act (Northern Ireland), 1950;

  • “pensionable employee” in relation to a Northern Ireland employing authority means an employee whether permanent or temporary who has been duly admitted to participate in the benefits of the superannuation scheme administered by the Committee or the Corporation, as the case may be;

  • “war service”, in relation to England and Wales means war service within the meaning of the Local Government Staffs (War Service) Act, 1939, but does not include, in the case of a person who before the termination of his war service made a claim under section 10 of the Act of 1937 or any corresponding provision of a local Act scheme for the return of contributions made by him for superannuation purposes, any part of his war service after the date on which the claim was made, and in relation to Northern Ireland means war service within the meaning of the Local Government Staffs (War Service) Act (Northern Ireland), 1939, or service in any of the naval, military, or air forces of the Crown, or employment for war purposes, within the meaning of the Superannuation Schemes (War Service) Act (Northern Ireland), 1941;

(3)

The Interpretation Act, 1889, applies to the interpretation of these rules as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.