The Superannuation (Public Offices) Rules 1967

Application of Part I

1.—(1) This Part of these Rules shall apply to any person who—

(a) has been continuously employed in more than one public office; and

(b) on or after retiring from the last public office in which he was continuously employed, or from other employment approved for the purposes of the superannuation scheme applicable to such last public office, or from employment, during such a period as is described in paragraph (3)(ii) of this Rule, in an office which has ceased to be a public office, becomes eligible for a retiring award under that superannuation scheme, or would be so eligible if he had served in such last public office for the minimum period qualifying him for a retiring award under that superannuation scheme.

(2) In this Part of these Rules a person to whom this Part of these Rules applies is referred to as an “officer”.

(3) For the purposes of these Rules, a person shall be deemed to have been continuously employed in two public offices, notwithstanding that he has not been directly transferred from the first public office to the second, if—

(a) where he was employed in the first public office in a pensionable capacity, he became employed in the second public office within 31 days of ceasing to be employed in the first, or within such longer period as the rules governing the superannuation scheme applicable to the second public office may allow in his case; and

(b) where he was employed in a non-pensionable capacity in the first public office, he became employed in the second within such period that, if his service in that first public office had been rendered in a non-pensionable capacity in the second public office, that service would, under the superannuation scheme applicable to the second public office, have been reckoned as to the whole or any part thereof for the purpose of the award of a pension or gratuity under that scheme;

and in determining whether a person has been continuously employed in two public offices in accordance with this paragraph no account shall be taken of—

(i) any period after he ceases to be employed in the first public office and before he becomes employed in the second public office during which he is serving in other employment approved for the purposes of the superannuation scheme applicable to the first public office; or

(ii) in a case where the first public office has ceased to be a public office, any period during which he has continued to be employed in that office on its so ceasing and which is a period of employment approved by the Treasury for the purposes of these Rules.