The Superannuation (Scottish Teaching and English Local Government) Interchange Rules 1969

Discretionary Increase of Benefits

16.—(1) The local authority by whom a person to whom this Part applies was last employed may, within six months after the date on which they are notified by the Secretary of State of such application, exercise in relation to that person any discretion which, with a view to increasing the pension payable to him, it would have been open to them to exercise at the time when he left their employment if he had then retired and had been entitled to a retirement pension under regulation 5 of the Benefits Regulations or, if that regulation was not applicable to him, to any corresponding benefit provided under the superannuation provisions which were applicable to him in his former employment.

(2) A decision made in the exercise of any discretion under paragraph (1) of this rule shall be subject to the limitations and restrictions (if any) and to the right of appeal (if any) to which it would have been subject if the discretion had been exercised on the person's retirement in the circumstances aforesaid.

(3) Where a discretion has been exercised under paragraph (1) of this rule the service reckonable, immediately before he ceased to be employed in local government employment, by the person in whose favour the discretion has been exercised shall be deemed to have been correspondingly increased.

(4) Any increase in service, if attributable to a decision under this rule to increase the pension payable to the person otherwise than by any notional increase or extension of the service reckonable for the purpose of calculating that pension or by treating any specified period of non-contributing service as contributing service, or, under a local Act scheme, by similarly converting service of one category to service of another category, shall be ascertained by converting the service in respect of which the higher rate of benefit is payable into contributing service or service for the purposes of the relevant local Act scheme in the manner in which non-contributing service is converted into contributing service under section 2(4) of the Act of 1953.