Article 4
Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of these rules, the national service of a person to whom rule 2 or 3 these rules applies shall not be reckonable for the purpose of determining whether he has served for any minimum number of years required for the receipt of any benefit under the Act of 1937 or a local Act scheme, or for the purpose of calculating any such benefit or any transfer value payable in respect of him or, in the case of a person to whom rule 3 applies, for the purpose of determining whether he is entitled to be made subject to the Act of 1937 or a local Act scheme, unless during the period of his national service he has made or immediately after becoming a person to whom rule 2 or 3 applies he makes the like contributions (if any) as he would have been liable to make during the said period if he had continued to follow his former employment and been entitled to the remuneration thereof, and if he has made or makes such contributions the authority or body by whom he was formerly employed shall make the like contributions in respect of him as they would have been liable to make if he had so continued to follow his employment as aforesaid:
Provided that nothing in this rule shall—
require the payment of contributions by a person after the date on which he has made a claim for the return of his contributions as a condition of his becoming entitled to reckon the period of his national service before the date of the claim; or
require payment of contributions by a person who has entered employment under a local authority in which he is not entitled to participate in the benefits of a superannuation fund maintained under Part I of the Act of 1937 or under a local Act scheme as a condition of becoming entitled to reckon the period of his national service as a period of non-contributing service for the purposes of the Act of 1937, upon his becoming subject thereto.