The Superannuation (Public Offices) Rules 1967

Death gratuities

11.—(1) Where a person who has been continuously employed in more than one public office dies while still employed in a public office or in approved employment, any period of service—

(a) which he has rendered in a public office before becoming employed in the last public office in which he was employed; and

(b) which might have been reckoned for a retiring award under Part I of these Rules,

may, if the authority administering the superannuation scheme applicable to the last public office in which he was employed thinks fit, be treated, for the purpose only of counting towards any minimum period of qualifying service required by that superannuation scheme for the grant of a gratuity in respect of his death, as service in such last public office.

(2) Where the last public office in which a person to whom paragraph (1) of this Rule applies was employed and any other public office or offices in which he was employed are similar public offices in resect of service in which a single retiring award might have been made to him under Rule 3 of these Rules, and the gratuity granted in respect of his death under the superannuation scheme applicable to his last public office may be calculated by reference to the amount of the lump sum which might have been granted to him if he had retired on the ground of ill-health at the date of his death, then the gratuity may be calculated by reference to the amount of the lump sum which might have been granted to him under Rule 3 of these Rules if he had retired as aforesaid, and the cost of any gratuity so calculated shall be apportioned between the superannuation schemes applicable to the similar public offices in which he was employed in accordance with the provisions of Rule 4 of these Rules.

(3) Any gratuity payable in respect of the death of a person to whom paragraph (1) of this Rule applies shall, except in so far as is otherwise provided by paragraph (2) of this Rule, be paid exclusively by the authority administering the superannuation scheme applicable to the last public office in which he was employed.

(4) Where the last public office in which a person was employed and any other public office or offices in which he was employed are similar public offices in respect of service in which he became, after he retired, eligible for a single retiring award under Rule 3 of these Rules, section 4(2) of the Superannuation Act 1965 or any corresponding provision in the superannuation scheme applicable to his last public office shall have effect as if any reference to a superannuation allowance or an additional allowance were a reference to the corresponding benefit under Rule 3 of these Rules, and any gratuity payable under the said section 4(2) or any corresponding provision shall be paid exclusively by the authority administering the superannuation scheme applicable to his last public office.

(5) For the purpose of this Rule, “approved employment” means, in relation to any person, employment (not being employment in a public office) approved for the purposes of the superannuation scheme applicable to the last public office in which he was employed.