Post Office Act 1969

46 The Post Office to be liable, in certain cases, for part payment of pensions of certain former civil servants

Where, in the case of a person who has ceased to be a civil servant, the following conditions are satisfied, namely.—

(a) that, immediately before he so ceased, he was employed elsewhere than in the department of the Postmaster General;

(b) that, after he so ceased, but before the appointed day, he began to serve in that department in an unestablished capacity and continued to serve therein until the appointed day ; and

(c) that, on the appointed day, he began a period of service in the Post Office;

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;

shall, instead of being paid out of moneys provided by Parliament, be paid by the Post Office.