6Amendment of Fourth Schedule to Local Government Act, 1933, and section sixteen of Electricity (Supply) Act, 1919
(1)Any period during which a person has been engaged in war service shall be reckoned for the purposes of the Fourth Schedule to the Local Government Act, 1933, as applied by or incorporated, with or without modifications or adaptations, in any enactment or statutory order (except this Act or any other enactment or order which contains a provision to the like effect as this section), as a period of service in his office, and where any such period is so reckoned, his emoluments during that period shall, for the purposes of sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 4 of the said Schedule as so applied or incorporated, be deemed to be such as he would have received if he had not been engaged in war service.
(2)Section sixteen of the [9 & 10 Geo. 5. c. 100.] Electricity (Supply) Act, 1919 (which provides among other matters for the reckoning of certain kinds of war service as service under the authorised undertakers), as amended by any subsequent enactment, and the said section as so amended arid as applied, with or without modifications or adaptations, by any subsequent enactment, shall have effect as if the reference to " the present war " or to " the war " included a reference to " the period of the present emergency " as defined by the [2 & 3 Geo. 6. c. 94.] Local Government Staffs (War Service) Act, 1939.
(3)This section shall be deemed to have had effect as from the first day of September, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine.