Article 3 Definition of “the prescribed time limit”
Subject as hereinafter provided, “the prescribed time limit” means—
in rule 4, a period of 12 months after ceasing to be employed in local government employment or, in the case of a person who immediately after leaving such employment became engaged in national service, a period of 6 months after the termination of that service;
in rule 6, a period of 12 months after ceasing to be employed in transport employment or, in the case of a person who immediately after leaving such employment became engaged in national service, a period of 6 months after the termination of that service:
Provided that:
the reference in sub-paragraph (a) of this paragraph to a period of 12 months from the date on which a person ceased to be employed shall be construed in relation to a person to whom section 6 of the Act has become applicable as a reference to a period of 5 years from that date or such longer period as the Minister may, in any particular case, allow; and
in reckoning the period of 12 months mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) no account shall be taken of a period of probationary service required as a condition of admission to membership of the relevant transport employment superannuation fund.
Subject as hereinafter provided, in the case of a person to whom rule 4 or rule 6 of these rules applies—
in reckoning the said period of 12 months or, as the case may be, the said period of 6 months mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) or (b) of the last preceding paragraph, no account shall be taken of any period spent by the person on a course of study or training which he entered after leaving his former employment;
if the person left his former employment in order to enter a course of study or training and on completion of that course became engaged in national service, he shall be deemed for the purposes of the last preceding paragraph to have left that employment at the time when he completed the said course of study or training.
The provisions of the last preceding paragraph shall not apply to any person unless—
before leaving his former employment (or, if between leaving that employment and entering the said course of study or training he was engaged in national service, before the end of that service) he gave notice in writing to the authority by whom he was employed of his intention to enter the said course of study or training; and
his new employer is satisfied that by reason of having undertaken the said course of study or training the person is better fitted for the duties of his new employment.