Explanatory note

The Rules provide for service (not being service before 4th February 1946 or before age 18) with the Royal National Institute for the Blind or the Birmingham Royal Institution for the Blind of employees engaged on the resettlement of blind persons who were taken into the Civil Service on 1st October 1963 to be reckoned, subject to certain conditions, as unestablished civil service for the purposes of the Superannuation Acts.