Article 17 Preservation of rights as transferred poor law or rating employee

(1)

Subject to the provisions of this rule, where a person to whom this part of these rules applies—

(a)

was entitled immediately before entering approved employment to rights under Part I of Schedule 2 of the Act of 1937 (which Part relates to transferred poor law and transferred rating employees), and

(b)

immediately before leaving that approved employment was entitled to rights corresponding to those to which he would have been entitled if the Act of 1937 had been applicable to him in that employment,

then for the purposes of Part I of Schedule 2 to the Act of 1937 he shall be deemed not to have had a disqualifying break of service between the date on which he first left local government employment and the date on which he again enters local government employment.

(2)

This rule shall not apply to a person who transferred from approved employment to local government employment before the commencement of these rules unless—

(a)

he gives notice in writing to the fund authority within 6 months of that date, or such longer period as they may allow, that he desires this rule to apply to him, and

(b)

the fund authority consent.