Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1948

12 Superannuation of certain persons serving in the educational services otherwise than as teachers.

(1) Where the Minister of Education is satisfied with respect to service in any particular appointment in an educational service that it is not service as a teacher and is not service which to a substantial extent involves the control or supervision of teachers, but that it is service in the performance of which teaching experience is of value, he may approve service in that appointment for the purposes of this subsection ; and if any person is employed after the commencement of this Act in that appointment, his said employment after the commencement of this Act shall, if he makes application to the Minister of Education for that purpose within the time and in the manner prescribed by rules under section seventeen of the Teachers (Superannuation) Act, 1925, be treated for the purposes of that Act as if it were employment as a teacher in contributory service, and references in the said Act to teachers and to contributory service shall be construed accordingly :

Provided that the employment of a person shall not be treated as employment in contributory service by virtue of this subsection unless he has previously been employed for not less than three years, whether in England or Wales or elsewhere and whether before or after the commencement of this Act, as a teacher in a capacity approved by the Minister of Education.

(2) Where, under the Teachers Superannuation (War Service) Act, 1939, a period of war service is treated for the purposes of part II of the Teachers (Superannuation) Act, 1925, as if it were a period of contributory service, or where, under the Scottish Teachers Superannuation Scheme, a period of war service is treated as service for the purposes of that scheme, that period of war service shall also be treated as if it were a period of service as a teacher in a capacity approved by the Minister of Education for the purposes of this section, of section two of the Teachers (Superannuation) Act, 1945, and of section fourteen of the said Act of 1925.

(3) The last preceding subsection shall, in relation to the said section two and the said section fourteen, be deemed to have had effect as from the passing of the said Act of 1945.

(4) Subsection (3) of section two of the Teachers (Superannuation) Act, 1945, is hereby repealed.