Explanatory note

These Rules provide for the aggregation of service and for a single superannuation award in cases where persons transfer within the prescribed period (generally 12 months) from pensionable employment with a local authority in England or Wales to employment entailing membership of certain superannuation schemes associated with the public transport services, or where within a similar period persons transfer from the latter to the former employment. Where such a transfer is made the person is enabled, subject to the payment of an appropriate transfer value, to reckon previous service for pension under the superannuation scheme to which he transfers.

The Rules are given retrospective effect to a limited extent under the express powers of, and subject to the safeguards required by, section 2(5) of the Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1948.