Article 11
Where a person who, having been employed by the body known as the “Meteorological Committee”, became a civil servant before the 28th May, 1948, in the Meteorological Office of the Secretary of State, his continuous service in the employment of the said body prior to the 1st April, 1920, shall be reckoned for the purposes of the Superannuation Acts as if it were service to the State in an unestablished capacity.
In the case of a person who, having been employed as mentioned in the immediately preceding paragraph, became, during the year 1920, subject to a superannuation scheme operated under the Federated Superannuation System for Universities and who on the coming into force of these Rules is
still so subject, and
employed in service to the State
the Secretary of State may make a payment (hereinafter referred to as “the insurance contribution”) for the benefit of such person in manner hereinafter provided.
The insurance contribution shall be a sum which shall be calculated in the following manner:—
There shall be determined by the Treasury, as respects each year of the person's continuous service in the employment of the Meteorological Committee prior to the 1st April, 1920, the sum (in this Rule referred to as “the annual contribution”) which is equivalent to 5 per cent. of the salary and emoluments received by him in that year;
There shall be further determined by the Treasury in respect of each annual contribution the sum (in this Rule referred to as “the interest addition”) which is equivalent to compound interest at the rate of 3 per cent. per annum, with annual stops, on that annual contribution from the end of the year in respect of which it was determined until the date when the insurance contribution is applied in manner provided by the next succeeding paragraph of this Rule;
The insurance contribution shall be a sum equivalent to the aggregate of the annual contributions and the interest additions determined in respect of the period of the person's continuous service with the Meteorological Committee, prior to the 1st April, 1920.
In this paragraph the expression “year of the person's continuous service with the Meteorological Committee” means the period (if it is or is shorter than, 12 months) from the date of the commencement of that service until the 1st April, 1920, or, if the said period is longer than 12 months, each succeeding 12 months thereof, and shall include any period which is shorter than 12 months which elapsed between the expiration of the last such period of 12 months and the 1st April, 1920.
The insurance contribution shall be applied by the Secretary of State in such manner as may be provided in the superannuation scheme operated under the Federated Superannuation System for Universities to which that person is subject for the application of contributions paid under that Scheme.
In the case of a person who retired from service to the State before the coming into force of these Rules and to whom paragraph (2) of this Rule would have applied had these Rules been in force at the date of his retirement, the Secretary of State may make a payment to or in respect of him of a sum determined in accordance with paragraph (3) of this Rule save that in applying the provisions of that paragraph the references therein to the date when the insurance contribution is applied in accordance with paragraph (4) of this Rule shall be deemed to be references to the date when the payment is made in accordance with the provisions of this paragraph.
For the purposes of this Rule no account shall be taken of any period for which a person served in the Meteorological Office of the Secretary of State before attaining the age of 18 years and references to the period of a person's continuous service with the Meteorological Committee prior to the 1st April, 1920, and to the commencement of that service shall be construed accordingly.