THE NATIONAL INSURANCE AND CIVIL SERVICE (SUPERANNUATION) RULES, 1948.

Option to civil servant to have modified conditions applied to payments under Superannuation Acts

8.—(1) Where, in the case of a person to whom Rule 5 applies (but who has not elected to continue to be subject to a policy under Rule 6 or whose election has been declined by the Minister), a contingency arises, or may arise, in relation to which an allowance or gratuity may be paid to or in respect of him under the Superannuation Acts, he may, either before or after the arising of the contingency, but not later than six weeks after it has arisen, give notice in writing to the Minister that he elects that the provisions of the next following paragraph shall apply in relation to that contingency:

Provided that, if the person is unavoidably prevented from giving such notice before the expiration of the said six weeks, the Minister may in his discretion extend the period for giving such notice.

(2) Where such a notice has been received by the Minister, such portion of the said allowance or gratuity as the Minister, with the consent of the Treasury, may determine to be attributable to the period of his former employment (but no other portion thereof) shall, notwithstanding anything in the Superannuation Acts, be subject to the like conditions as were applicable under the pension scheme associated with his former employment as to payment, allocation or otherwise, but with such modifications as the Minister, with the consent of the Treasury, may determine to be necessary to adapt those conditions to payment under those Acts.