{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/superannuation-local-government-and-overseas-employment-interchange-rules-1969/article-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1969/975",
  "legislation_title": "The Superannuation (Local Government and Overseas Employment) Interchange Rules 1969",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/superannuation-local-government-and-overseas-employment-interchange-rules-1969",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Rights in respect of entry into overseas employment",
  "text": "(1) Where a person ceases to hold overseas employment in such circumstances, including that of his age and the length of his service (taking into account the period of overseas employment), as had they obtained when he ceased to hold his local government employment would have entitled him to any benefit (other than an injury allowance) under the Act of 1937, he shall be entitled, as from the date on which he ceases to hold the overseas employment, to receive that benefit out of the superannuation fund of the first fund authority, calculated as if he had become entitled thereto at the date on which he ceased to hold his local government employment.\n(2) Where a person ceases to hold overseas employment and has attained the age of 60 years, or any lesser age at which under the conditions of service applicable to him in the overseas employment he is required by reason of age to retire from that employment, but by reason of his not having attained some greater age and served for a correspondingly longer period he does not qualify for a benefit under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, he shall be entitled on attaining such greater age to receive the like benefits as he would have received under the preceding paragraph if he had attained that age at the date when he ceased to hold the overseas employment and had held that employment for a correspondingly longer period.\n(3) Where a person dies in any of the following circumstances, that is to say—\n(a) while in overseas employment;\n(b) within 12 months after leaving overseas employment;\n(c) after ceasing to be in overseas employment in the circumstances mentioned in paragraph (2) of this rule and before attaining such greater age as is therein mentioned; or\n(d) after having become entitled to a benefit under paragraph (1) or (2) of this rule,\nthere shall be paid in respect of him out of the superannuation fund of the first fund authority the like benefits (if any), except any benefit for which the requisite voluntary contributions have not been maintained during the period of overseas employment, as would have been paid—\n(i) in any of the three first-mentioned circumstances, if he had died immediately before ceasing to hold his local government employment and there had been reckonable for the purpose of determining whether any benefit might have become payable to or in respect of him under the Act of 1937, in addition to any service reckonable under the said Act, a period of service equal in length to the period of overseas employment and, if he was a person to whom paragraph (2) applied, the period between the date of his ceasing to hold that employment and the date of his death, and\n(ii) in the last-mentioned circumstance, if he had become entitled to the said benefit under the said Act.\n(4) Where a person ceases to hold overseas employment in the circumstances mentioned in paragraph (2) of this rule, the first fund authority shall, if within 6 months after ceasing to hold the overseas employment he so requests, pay to him in lieu of the benefits to which he would otherwise later become entitled under the said paragraph (2), those benefits reduced, according to his age at the date on which he ceased to be employed in the overseas employment, by the percentages shown in the appropriate columns of the Tables set out in schedule 1 so, however, that any such reduction shall be disregarded in the calculation of any widow's pension which may become payable in respect of the person under paragraph (3) of this rule.\n(5) Where a person to whom this rule applies became engaged in national service after ceasing to hold his local government employment, that service shall for the purposes of calculating any benefit payable to or in respect of him under this rule be reckonable as contributing service if that service would have been so reckonable had the person returned to his local government employment at the date on which he entered overseas employment or, if it would not have been so reckonable as aforesaid by reason of the fact that the person had not complied with any condition as to the payment of contributions, if immediately after he entered the overseas employment or immediately after he notified the first fund authority, whichever is the later, he paid to the first fund authority the like sum as he would have been required to pay in order to comply with the said condition had he returned to his local government employment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1969/975/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T23:10:19.856153+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."
}