(1)The Minister may direct that regulations made under subsection (1) of section sixty-seven of the Act of 1946 shall, subject to such modifications as may be provided in the direction, apply to such classes of officers as may be specified in the direction, being officers of a Government department serving on the medical or nursing staff of that department or at or for the purposes of a hospital maintained by that department, as if their employment were employment entitling them to participate in superannuation benefits provided under paragraph (a) of that subsection, and in that event the said regulations shall apply accordingly.
(2)The Minister may direct that regulations made under subsection (1) of section sixty-seven of the Act of 1946 shall, subject to such modifications as may be provided in the direction, apply to any such officer as is mentioned in paragraph (a) of that subsection who within twelve months after leaving his employment as such an officer enters such other employment as may be approved by the Minister for the purposes of this section, as if the employment so approved were employment entitling him to participate in superannuation benefits provided under that paragraph, and in that event the said regulations shall apply accordingly.
(3)This section shall apply to Scotland with the substitution for the references to the Minister of references to the Secretary of State and for the references to section sixty-seven of the Act of 1946 of references to section sixty-six of the Act of 1947.