The Superannuation (Local Act Authorities Schemes) Interchange Rules 1949 No. 630

3.  Where a person enters or has entered before the date of the coming into operation of these rules employment by virtue of which he is entitled, without being a local Act contributor, to participate in the benefits of a superannuation fund maintained under a local Act scheme within a period of twelve months after the date on which he ceased to be employed in employment in which he was or was deemed to be a contributory employee or local Act contributor, or in the case of a person who left such employment in order to undertake war service or immediately after leaving such employment became engaged in national service, within six months after the termination of that service, the Act of 1937, and any statutory provision thereunder shall apply to and in respect of him as if in the employment he has entered he had become a local Act contributor:

Provided that the reference in this rule t a period of twelve months from the date on which a person ceases to be employed shall be construed in relation to a person to whom section 6 of the Act has become applicable as a reference to a period of five years from that date or such longer period as the Minister may in any particular case allow.