Article 3

there shall be inserted the following definitions:—

• “ `the Act of 1953' means the Local Government Superannuation Act, 1953;

• `added years' means any additional years of service reckonable by a person who is, or is deemed to be, a contributory employee or local Act contributor under regulation 12 of the benefits regulations, any corresponding provision of a local Act scheme or that regulation or any such provision 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;

• `the benefits regulations' means the Local Government Superannuation (Benefits) Regulations, 1954^f1 ;

• `the transfer value regulations' means the Local Government Superannuation (Transfer Value) Regulations, 1954^f2 ;

• `voluntary contributions' means payments made voluntarily by a person who was, or was deemed to be, a contributory employee or local Act contributor 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—

  1. (i)

     additional contributory payments of the kind referred to in subsections (3) and (4) of section 2 of the Act 1953;

  2. (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 a local Act scheme provides for the reckoning of noncontributing service, as contributing service for the purposes of the scheme;

  3. (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;

  4. (iv)

     any payments made in respect of added years; ”

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”;”;