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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/superannuation-local-government-and-public-transport-services-interchange-rules-1965/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1965/1676",
  "legislation_title": "The Superannuation (Local Government and Public Transport Services) Interchange Rules 1965",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/superannuation-local-government-and-public-transport-services-interchange-rules-1965",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them—\n“the Act” means the Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1948;\n“the Act of 1909” means the Asylums Officers' Superannuation Act 1909;\n“the Act of 1937” means the Local Government Superannuation Act 1937;\n“the Act of 1953” means the Local Government Superannuation Act 1953;\n“the Acts of 1937 to 1953” means the Local Government Superannuation Acts 1937 to 1953;\n“added years” means—\n(a) in relation to a person in local government employment, 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 or under any enactment, 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;\n(b) in relation to a person employed in transport employment, any additional years of service of the nature of additional years of service referred to in paragraph (a) of this definition which have been granted in, or have otherwise become reckonable in, his employment;\n“the benefits regulations” means the Local Government Superannuation (Benefits) Regulations 1954 ;\n“contributory employee” has the same meaning as in the Act of 1937;\n“local Act contributor” has the same meaning as in the Act of 1937;\n“local government employment” means employment by virtue of which the person employed is or is deemed to be a contributory employee or local Act contributor;\n“the Minister” means the Minister of Housing and Local Government;\n“national service” in relation to any person means service which is relevant service within the meaning of 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;\n“the transfer value regulations” means the Local Government Superannuation (Transfer Value) Regulations 1954 ;\n“the transport authority” in relation to a person engaged in transport employment means the authority or body responsible for the administration of the superannuation fund of which he is a member;\n“transport employment” in relation to any person means employment in which he is a member of any superannuation fund mentioned in column 1 of the schedule to these regulations;\n“voluntary contributions” means, in relation to a person who has entered transport employment after ceasing to be employed in local government employment, payments made voluntarily by him, while in local government employment, 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) made in respect of added years;\n“war service” means war service within the meaning of the Local Government Staffs (War Service) Act 1939, but does not include, in the case of a person who before the termination of his war service made a claim under section 10 of the Act of 1937 or any corresponding provision of a local Act scheme for the return of contributions made by him for superannuation purposes, any part of his war service after the date on which the claim was made.\n(2) References in these rules to the provisions of any enactment, rules, regulations or scheme shall be construed, unless the context otherwise requires, as references to those provisions as amended, modified, applied or re-enacted by any subsequent enactment, rules, regulations or scheme.\n(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.\n(4) The Interpretation Act 1889, applies to the interpretation of these rules as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "(1954 II, p. 1595)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "(1954 II, p. 1723)"
    }
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1965/1676/article/2",
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  "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."
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