1.—(1) These rules may be cited as the Superannuation (English Local Government and Isle of Man) Interchange Rules, 1951, and shall come into operation on the first day of March, 1951.
(2) In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them—
“the Minister” means the Minister of Health;
“the Act” means the Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1948;
“the Act of 1937” means the Local Government Superannuation Act, 1937;
“Isle of Man authority” means the Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man in respect of the Isle of Man Civil Service, a Board within the meaning of the Superannuation (Officers of Boards) Acts, 1934 to 1939 (being Acts of Tynwald), as amended by any subsequent enactment, a local authority administering a superannuation scheme under section 13 of the Local Government Amendment Act, 1929 (an Act of Tynwald), as amended by any subsequent enactment, the Isle of Man Health Service Board administering a scheme under Part III of the Mental Diseases Act, 1924 (an Act of Tynwald), the Isle of Man Board of Social Services administering a scheme under section 13 of the Social Services Act, 1948 (an Act of Tynwald), and any other Board, local authority or body in the Isle of Man any of whose employees are entitled to participate in a superannuation scheme administered under the provisions of an Act of Tynwald;
“national service”, in relation to any person, means compulsory national service within the meaning of the Act, and includes any period immediately following the termination thereof during which the person with the consent of the authority or body by whom he was employed before undertaking compulsory national service continues in similar service;
“pensionable employee”, in relation to an Isle of Man authority, includes an employee of any other authority or of any undertakers exercising any of their powers under any Act of Tynwald or any order having the force of an Act who has been duly admitted to participate in the benefits of the superannuation scheme administered by the Isle of Man authority as though he were their employee; and
“war service”, in relation to any person means war service within the meaning of the Local Government Staffs (War Service) Act, 1939, but does not include, in the case of a person who before the termination of his war service made a claim under section 10 of the Act of 1937 or any corresponding provision of a local Act scheme for the return of contributions made by him for superannuation purposes, any part of his war service after the date on which the claim was made.
(3) The Interpretation Act, 1889, applies to the interpretation of these rules as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.