{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/superannuation-public-offices-rules-1967/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/superannuation-public-offices-rules-1967/article-5.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/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Separate retiring awards",
  "text": "(1) In respect of an officer's service in any dissimilar public office, a separate retiring award may be made to him in accordance with the provisions of this Rule.\n(2) Except as otherwise provided by this Rule, such retiring award may be made to the officer under this Rule by the authority administering the superannuation scheme applicable to the public office as might have been made to him under that superannuation scheme if he had retired from employment in the public office on the ground of ill-health, such award being calculated by reference to his service in the public office:\nProvided that—\n(a) any service in respect of which the officer 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 reckoned for the purpose of this Rule; and\n(b) 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(3) Any period of service which, under the superannuation scheme applicable to any public office in which the officer has been employed before becoming employed in a dissimilar public office, would have been treated as counting towards any minimum period of qualifying service required by that superannuation scheme may, for the purpose only of counting towards any minimum period of qualifying service required by the superannuation scheme applicable to the dissimilar public office, be treated as service in that dissimilar public office.\n(4) If the number of years of an officer's aggregate service in public offices qualifies him for a pension as distinguished from a gratuity under the rules of the superannuation scheme applicable to the last public office in which he was employed before he retired, then he may be granted a pension as distinguished from a gratuity by the authority administering the superannuation scheme applicable to any dissimilar public office in which he has been employed.\n(5) Where—\n(a) by virtue of paragraph (3) or (4) of this Rule, for the purpose of a retiring award in respect of an officer's service in a dissimilar public office, any service in another public office is treated as qualifying him for an award in respect of a period of reckonable service which is less than the qualifying period prescribed by the superannuation scheme applicable to that dissimilar public office; and\n(b) that superannuation scheme does not prescribe the amount of any retiring award in respect of such a period of reckonable service;\nan award may be made of an amount which bears the same proportion to the amount of the award prescribed for the minimum period of service provided for in that superannuation scheme as the period of the officer's reckonable service under that superannuation scheme bears to such minimum period of service.\n(6) Where an officer retires on a medical certificate from employment in a dissimilar public office 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 by the authority administering that superannuation scheme such retiring award as might have been granted to him if his reckonable service in that public office, when added to his aggregate reckonable service in all other public offices in which he has been employed, had been that specified period.",
  "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/5",
    "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."
}