Article 1

These rules may be cited as the Superannuation (Fire Brigade and other Local Government Service) Interchange Rules, 1952, and shall come into operation on the sixteenth day of May, 1952.

In these rules, the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them:—

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

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

• “fireman” means a member of a fire brigade of a class prescribed by the Firemen's Pension Scheme for the purposes of section 2 of the Fire Services Act, 1951;

• “the Firemen's Pension Scheme” means the scheme for the time being in force under section 26 of the Fire Services Act, 1947;

• “national service”, in relation to any person, means compulsory national service within the meaning of the Act, or any other 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 national service continues in similar service; and

• “war service”, in relation to any person, 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.

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