The Superannuation (Civil Service and Local Government) Interchange Rules 1968

Rights of insured persons

21.  Where the officer, before he ceased to be employed as a civil servant, was an insured person within the meaning of the National Insurance Act 1965, then—

(a) if he had been excepted from the operation of any provision (in this rule referred to as “the modification provision”) modifying benefits under the Superannuation Act, the provisions of any regulations made or deemed to have been made by the Minister of Housing and Local Government or the Secretary of State under section 110(1) of the National Insurance Act 1965 and the provisions of any other regulations or any scheme replacing wholly or in part the provisions of regulations made or deemed to have been made under the said subsection shall not apply to him; and

(b) if he had not been so excepted, the provisions of the said regulations shall apply to him as if any service which he reckoned as contributing service or as service or a period of contribution for the purposes of a local Act scheme or as non-contributing service under rule 17 of these rules, being service of which account would have been taken under the modification provision for the purpose of reducing any benefit to which he might have become entitled under the Superannuation Act had he continued to be subject thereto, were service rendered on or after 5th July 1948.