{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/superannuation-local-government-and-approved-employment-interchange-rules-1969/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/superannuation-local-government-and-approved-employment-interchange-rules-1969/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1969/997",
  "legislation_title": "The Superannuation (Local Government and Approved Employment) Interchange Rules 1969>",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/superannuation-local-government-and-approved-employment-interchange-rules-1969",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Meaning of “prescribed period”",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of these rules, the expression “prescribed period” in rules 5 and 9 means a period of 12 months after the date on which a person left local government employment or, as the case may be, approved employment, and in the case of a person who immediately after leaving such employment became engaged in national service, a period of 6 months after the termination of that service.\n(2) The reference in the preceding paragraph to a period of 12 months shall be construed in relation to a person to whom section 6 of the Act of 1948 applies (which makes special provision as to local government superannuation during periods of emergency) as a reference to a period of 5 years or such longer period as the Minister may in any particular case allow.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1969/997/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T23:10:14.607915+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}