The Local Government Superannuation Regulations 1986

Previous service of certain re-employed pensioners

D11.—(1) A person who—

(a) has become entitled to a retirement pension, otherwise than by virtue of regulation E2(2), and

(b) enters further employment with any scheduled body in which he becomes a pensionable employee,

is entitled to reckon as qualifying service the period in respect of which he became entitled to the retirement pension.

(2) A person—

(a) who is in receipt of a pension payable out of public funds,

(b) who enters employment with any scheduled body in which he becomes a pensionable employee, and

(c) whose pension is on that account liable to be reduced or suspended,

is entitled to reckon as qualifying service the period in respect of which the pension was granted.

(3) A person who—

(a) after becoming entitled on ceasing to hold an employment (“the first employment”) to a retirement pension by virtue of regulation E2(1)(c) enters further employment with any scheduled body in which he becomes a pensionable employee, and

(b) in respect of his ceasing to hold the first employment has received a return of the whole or a part of the aggregate amount of his contributions to the appropriate superannuation fund within the meaning of regulation C12,

is entitled to reckon as qualifying service the period in respect of which the return of contributions was made.

(4) In paragraph (1) “retirement pension” includes a short service grant under the Benefits regulations, an ill-health grant under regulation E4, a superannuation allowance under Part I of the Act of 1937, and an annual pension under the former regulations.