# The Superannuation (Local Government and National Health Service) Interchange Rules 1955, Article 2: Interpretation


(1) In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them—
“the Act” means the Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1948;
“the Act of 1909” means the Asylums Officers' Superannuation Act, 1909;
“the Act of 1937” means the Local Government Superannuation Act, 1937;
“the Act of 1946” means the National Health Service Act, 1946;
“the Act of 1953” means the Local Government Superannuation Act, 1953;
“the Acts of 1937 to 1953” means the Local Government Superannuation Acts, 1937 to 1953;
“added years” means—
(a) in relation to a contributory employee or local Act contributor, any additional years of service reckonable by him under regulation 12 of the benefits regulations, any corresponding provision of a local Act scheme or that regulation or any such provision as 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;
(b) in relation to an officer, any additional years of service of the nature of additional years of service referred to in paragraph (a) of this definition which have become reckonable under the Health Service Regulations;
“the benefits regulations” means the Local Government Superannuation (Benefits) Regulations, 1954, as amended by the Local Government Superannuation (Benefits) Amendment Regulations, 1955 ;
“contributory employee” has the same meaning as in the Act of 1937 and includes a person deemed to be a contributory employee and any reference to employment in or by virtue of which a person is or was a contributory employee shall be construed accordingly;
“designated employee” and “disqualifying break of service” have the same meanings as in the Act of 1937;
“employing authority” has the same meaning as in the Health Service Regulations;
“local Act contributor” has the same meaning as in the Act of 1937 and includes a person deemed to be a local Act contributor and any reference to employment in or by virtue of which a person is or was a local Act contributor shall be construed accordingly;
“the Health Service Regulations” means the National Health Service (Superannuation) Regulations, 1955 ;
“the Minister” means the Minister of Housing and Local Government;
“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;
“officer” (except that it does not include a person to whom paragraph (2) of regulation 8 of the Health Service Regulations applies) has the same meaning as in the Health Service Regulations and includes a person to whom those regulations apply as if he were an officer of an employing authority;
“voluntary contributions” means—
(a) in relation to a person who has become an officer after leaving employment in which he was a contributory employee or local Act contributor, payments made voluntarily by him 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—
(i) additional contributory payments of the kind referred to in subsections (3) and (4) of section 2 of the Act of 1953;
(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 the local Act scheme provides for the reckoning of non-contributing service, as contributing service for the purposes of the scheme;
(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;
(iv) any payments made in respect of added years;
(b) in relation to a person who has entered employment in which he is a contributory employee or local Act contributor after leaving employment in which he was an officer, any payments similar in character to any such payments as aforesaid for which, when he left the employment in which he was an officer, provision was made in the Health Service Regulations.
(2) References in these rules to the provisions of any enactment, rules or regulations shall be construed, unless the context otherwise requires, as references to those provisions as amended, applied or re-enacted by any subsequent enactment, rules or regulations.
(3) For the purposes of these rules a justices' clerk shall be deemed to be in the employment of the magistrates' courts committee by whom he is or, under the provisions of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1949, is deemed to have been, appointed and references to “employment” shall, in relation to any such person, be construed accordingly.
(4) References in these rules to the Health Service Regulations, or to a specific provision of those regulations shall be construed, in the case of a person who ceased to be an officer before the first day of October, 1955, as references to the National Health Service (Superannuation) Regulations, 1950, as amended, or, as the case may be, as references to the corresponding provision of the last-mentioned regulations.
(5) The Interpretation Act, 1889, applies to the interpretation of these rules as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.

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