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


The Rules replace, and extend, the Superannuation (Local Government and Overseas Employment) Interchange Rules 1958 and 1961. These enable pensionable employees of local authorities who take up certain overseas appointments of a public nature to preserve the benefit of the pension rights which accrued during their local government employment. These rights are, in effect, frozen during the overseas employment. Advantage may be taken of them as follows:—
(i) when the person concerned retires from his overseas appointment, he can receive a local government pension (but at a reduced rate if he retires and claims his pension before the appropriate retiring age in local government);
(ii) if he returns to local government pensionable employment, from his overseas appointment, he can reckon his previous local government service for pension purposes as though there had been no break in his local government employment;
(iii) if he becomes disabled or dies before becoming entitled to his local government pension under the Rules, payment can be made of a disability pension, widow's pension or death benefit.
The principal changes from the previous Rules are these—
(a) the definition of “overseas employment” has been widened to include employment with the Ministry of Overseas Development, and an organisation receiving grants, for overseas functions, from Her Majesty's Government;
(b) the permissible length of any break between employments and the time limits for compliance with certain conditions can be extended by the authority or authorities concerned;
(c) a person who proceeds overseas and later returns to local government employment can in certain circumstances be required to pay interest on any returned contributions held by him in the meantime.
The Rules are given limited retrospective operation under the authority of, and subject to the safeguards required by, section 2(5) of the Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1948.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1969/975/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/superannuation-local-government-and-overseas-employment-interchange-rules-1969/note
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