{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/superannuation-public-offices-rules-1967/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/superannuation-public-offices-rules-1967/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1967/364",
  "legislation_title": "The Superannuation (Public Offices) Rules 1967",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/superannuation-public-offices-rules-1967",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Single aggregated retiring award",
  "text": "(1) In respect of an officer's service in any two or more similar public offices, a single retiring award may be made to him in accordance with the provisions of this Rule.\n(2) Except as otherwise provided by this Rule, the award shall be calculated by reference to the aggregate of the periods of service which the officer was entitled to reckon for the purposes of each of the superannuation schemes applicable to his similar public offices, but any service in respect of which he has already been granted any superannuation benefits, or in respect of which he has received a return of contributions which have not been refunded, shall not be taken into account for the purposes of this Rule.\n(3) Where—\n(a) an officer has been employed in two similar public offices, and his service in the first of those public offices was non-pensionable service and his service in the second was pensionable service; and\n(b) the rules of the superannuation scheme applicable to the first public office were such that if he had subsequently rendered pensionable service in that public office his non-pensionable service therein would have been reckoned as to the whole or any part thereof for the purpose of the award of superannuation benefits under that scheme;\nthen such period of his non-pensionable service as would have been reckoned as aforesaid shall be reckoned as part of his aggregate service for the purpose of this Rule.\n(4) Where the officer did not serve in a pensionable capacity in the last public office in which he was employed, he shall not be eligible for a pension or gratuity in respect of any previous service in a pensionable capacity in any public office.\n(5) Where an officer who has been employed in two or more similar public offices retires on a medical certificate from employment in one of those public offices in such circumstances that under the superannuation scheme applicable to that public office his reckonable service, if it were equal to his total reckonable service in similar and dissimilar public offices, would be treated as being increased to a specified period, there may be granted to him in respect of his aggregate service in the similar public offices in which he has been employed such retiring award as might have been granted to him if his aggregate reckonable service in those similar public offices, when added to his aggregate reckonable service in any other public offices in which he has been employed, had been that specified period.\n(6) Subject to the provisions of this Rule in relation to the reckoning of an officer's aggregate service, his retiring award shall be calculated in accordance with the superannuation scheme applicable to the last similar public office in which he was employed and on his emoluments in that public office:\nProvided that if that superannuation scheme requires the retiring award to be calculated on an average of the emoluments of his office during a certain period, and if the officer has not been employed for the whole of such period in the last similar public office in which he was employed, his retiring award shall be calculated on the average of his emoluments during a similar period in which he last served in that public office and in any other similar public office.\n(7) An officer who is granted a retiring award under this Rule in respect of any service in a public office shall not be eligible for any retiring award in respect of that service under the superannuation scheme applicable to that public office.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1967/364/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T23:37:57.867848+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}