Explanatory note

These rules enable a person who is entitled to participate in the benefits of a superannuation fund maintained under the Local Government Superannuation Act, 1937, or any local Act scheme, if he is called up for national service, to continue to make contributions to the superannuation fund and so to secure that if on his return from his national service he again becomes a contributor to such a fund he will be able to reckon his national service as if it were service for the purposes of the Act of 1937 or any local Act scheme.

Provision is also made by the rules to secure that if a non-pensionable employee of a local authority who has undertaken national service returns to civil employment and becomes entitled to participate in any such superannuation fund his national service may be taken into account for superannuation purposes.