Article 2 Similar and dissimilar public offices

Where the public offices in which an officer has been continuously employed include two or more similar public offices, the provisions of Rules 3 and 4 of these Rules shall apply in relation to the retiring award which may be made in respect of his service in those public offices; and where the public offices in which such an officer has been continuously employed include, in addition to such similar public offices, one or more dissimilar public offices, Rule 5 of these Rules shall apply in relation to the retiring award which may be made in respect of his service in each of such dissimilar public offices.

Where the public offices in which an officer has been continuously employed do not include two or more similar public offices, Rule 5 of these Rules shall apply in relation to the retiring award which may be made in respect of his service in each of the public offices in which he has been employed.

For the purposes of these Rules, any two or more public offices in which a person has been employed shall be deemed to be similar public offices if the superannuation schemes to which he was subject while employed in those public offices are, in the opinion of the Treasury, so similar that it is practicable and expedient to make a single aggregated award in respect of such of his service as is reckonable for the purposes of those schemes; and any other public office in which he has been employed shall be deemed to be a dissimilar public office.