Post Office Act 1969

44 The Post Office to pay pensions, referable to the service of certain former civil servants

(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, the following shall, instead of being paid out of moneys provided by Parliament, be paid by the Post Office, that is to say:—

(a) any sum that falls to be paid in respect of a period beginning on or after the appointed day by way of allowance or pension under the [1965 c. 74.] Superannuation Act 1965 referable to the service of a person who—

(i) ceased to be a civil servant before that day; and

(ii) immediately before he so ceased, was employed in the department of the Postmaster General otherwise than wholly in connection with the discharge of the Postmaster General's functions under the following enactments (or any of them), that is to say, the [1929 c. 29.] Government Annuities Act 1929, the [1954 c. 62.] Post Office Savings Bank Act 1954, the [1958 c. 6 (7 & 8 Eliz. 2).] National Debt Act 1958, the [1966 c. 12.] Post Office Savings Bank Act 1966 and the [1968 c. 13.] National Loans Act 1968;

(b) any additional allowance or gratuity under the Superannuation Act 1965 that falls to be paid on or after the appointed day, being an allowance or gratuity referable to the service of any such person ; and

(c) any sum that falls to be so paid under that Act to any such person by way of return (with or without interest) of periodical contributions.

(2) Where, in the case of such a person as aforesaid, the following conditions are satisfied, namely.—

(a) that, after he ceased to be a civil servant, but before the appointed day, he began to serve in a department other than that of the Postmaster General in an unestablished capacity; and

(b) that his service in that department continued after the beginning of the appointed day ;

the foregoing subsection shall not apply to so much of any payment by way of a superannuation or additional allowance granted under the Superannuation Act 1965 to him or of a pension granted under that Act in respect of his service (being a pension the annual rate of which is determined by reference to the rate of his superannuation allowance) as is attributable to—

(i) a completed year of service which begins on or after the appointed day ; or

(ii) a completed year of service which begins before, and ends after, that day, being a year in the case of which more than one hundred and eighty-two of the days therein comprised fall after the day immediately preceding that day.