Article 6 Reckoning of previous service
Subject as hereinafter provided, where a person becomes, or before the date of the coming into operation of these rules became, employed in local government employment within the prescribed time limit after ceasing to be employed in transport employment and without having been granted a pension out of any superannuation fund mentioned in the schedule to these rules, then if the authority maintaining the superannuation fund to which he becomes, or first became, a contributor receive from the transport authority an amount equal to the sum payable in respect of that person under the rules governing the relevant fund upon the person entering local government employment, he shall be entitled to reckon as contributing service or service for the purposes of the local Act scheme, as the case may be, such number of completed years and months as having regard to his age and remuneration at the date on which he becomes or became employed in local government as aforesaid would have produced a transfer value of the said amount under the transfer value regulations had he ceased to be a contributory employee at the said date:
Provided that this rule shall not apply to—
any person unless within 3 months after entering his new employment or within 6 months after the date of the coming into operation of these rules, whichever period last expires, or within such longer period as the authority maintaining the superannuation fund to which he is a contributor may with the consent of the transport authority allow, he notifies the authority maintaining the superannuation fund to which he is a contributor in writing that he desires these rules to apply to him and furnishes them with particulars of his previous superannuable employment;
any person who left transport employment before the date specified for that employment in column 3 of the schedule to these rules.
A person to whom this rule applies shall not be entitled under section 12(2) of the Act of 1937 or any corresponding provision of a local Act scheme to reckon as service any local government employment prior to the date on which he became employed in transport employment if a transfer value has been paid in respect of that local government employment under rule 4 of these rules or under the corresponding provision of any other rules made under section 2 of the Act.
The reference in paragraph (1) of this rule to a transfer value shall be construed as a reference to a transfer value which is not subject to reduction under Part IV of the transfer value regulations or under any regulations made under section 69(4) of the National Insurance Act 1946 or section 15 of the National Insurance Act 1959.