# The Superannuation (Local Government and Other Employments) Interchange Rules 1969, Note: Explanatory note


These Rules add three new, identical, provisions to each of eight sets of rules which relate to the superannuation rights of persons transferring in either direction between employment in English local government and other pensionable employment—namely, employment under certain public authorities in (1) the Isle of Man. (2) Northern Ireland and (3) Jersey, and employment in (4) the National Health Service, (5) the Northern Ireland Civil Service, (6) the Northern Ireland Health Service, (7) Social Welfare and Health Education and (8) Public Transport.
The new provisions—
(i) give the old and the new pension fund authorities discretion to extend the permissible length of any break between employments and the time limit for compliance with various conditions;
(ii) provide, where such a break has been extended, for the payment of interest by a person who holds superannuation contributions returned on leaving local government employment;
(iii) terminate any right to any payment out of a local government superannuation fund when the rules have been applied to a person (in substance replacing an existing provision the terms of which have given rise to doubts).
They are given retrospective effect to a limited extent under the express powers of, and subject to the safeguards required by, section 2(5) of the Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1948.
The eight sets of rules are then further amended individually as follows:—
(a) a definition is added as a link with the new provisions;
(b) existing (more limited) provisions relating to the subject matter of the new provisions are revoked, and some minor consequential amendments are made;
(c) an unrelated amendment extends the scope of the rules to include persons who have become entitled to a pension in respect of their old employment but have not started to receive payment.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1969/710/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/superannuation-local-government-and-other-employments-interchange-rules-1969/note
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