Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1948

4 Special provision as to certain other transfers to the service of the State.

(1) Rules to be made by the Treasury under this subsection may make provision with respect to the pensions payable to and in respect of the following persons, namely—

(a) persons who, having been employed in one or more of the following employments, that is to say—

(i) as officers or servants of a local authority in service all or any part of which was not pensionable employment; or

(ii) in any other employment service in which was not then pensionable but was service in respect of which those persons would, if they had continued in that employment, have become entitled to participate in the benefits of a superannuation fund maintained under Part I of the Local Government Superannuation Act, 1937, or Part I of the Local Government Superannuation (Scotland) Act, 1937, or under a local Act scheme,

left any such employment, before such date before the passing of this Act as may be specified in the rules, in order to become civil servants in the department of the Assistance Board ; and

(b) persons who, having been employed by the Safety in Mines Research Board, or by a War Agricultural Executive Committee, become, whether before or after the passing of this Act but before such date as may be specified in the rules, civil servants or persons employed in service to the State in an unestablished capacity ; and

(c) persons who, having been employed in the body which, at the time when it ceased to exist, was known as " K" Signals Company of the Royal Corps of Signals, became, before such date before the passing of this Act as may be specified in the rules, civil servants employed in the Post Office ; and

(d) persons who, having been employed by the body known as the Meteorological Committee, became at any time before the passing of this Act civil servants in the Meteorological Office of the Secretary of State, not being civil servants subject to a superannuation scheme to which section five of the Superannuation Act, 1946 (which relates to the application to persons employed in the civil service of the State of certain superannuation schemes) applies,

and any such rules may provide for service in any such employment as aforesaid being reckoned, in such manner and to such extent as may be specified in the rules, as service to the State for the purposes of the Superannuation Acts, 1834 to 1946.

(2) Rules made under the preceding subsection may, in relation to persons of the class specified in paragraph (a) of the preceding subsection who—

(a) at any time before the coming into force of the rules, whether before or after they became civil servants, and whether by reason of their becoming civil servants or for any other reason, received any payment by way of a return of contributions under any enactment, including any scheme made thereunder or in pursuance thereof, relating to the superannuation of officers and servants of local authorities, being contributions in respect of a period of service as an officer or servant of a local authority which was pensionable employment; and

(b) in the case of such payments received before their appointment to be civil servants, did not, before their said appointment, refund the contributions so returned to them,

include provisions requiring those persons to pay into the Exchequer amounts equal to the whole or any part of the contributions so returned to them as a condition of their service as officers or servants of a local authority as aforesaid being reckoned, to the extent specified in the rules, as service to the State for the purposes of the Superannuation Acts, 1834 to 1946.

(3) Rules to be made by the Treasury under this subsection may make provision to secure that benefits corresponding as nearly as may be to the benefits conferred under subsection (1) of this section on or in respect of the persons specified in paragraph (d) of that subsection are conferred on or in respect of persons who, having been employed by the aforesaid Meteorological Committee, were at any time before the passing of this Act employed in the civil service of the State in the aforesaid Meteorological Office and became, and thereafter remained, subject to a superannuation scheme to which section five of the [9 & 10 Geo. 6. c. 60.] Superannuation Act, 1946, applies.