Local Government (Compensation) Regulations 1948

8.  For the purpose of determining whether any compensation, apart from any interim compensation paid under paragraphs 4 and 5 of this schedule, is payable to any person for loss of employment, and if so the amount of the compensation to be paid, subject to the provisions of paragraph 11 of this schedule, until normal retiring age, the compensating authority shall have regard to—

(a) the conditions upon which his appointment was made;

(b) the nature of his office;

(c) the extent to which he has sought suitable alternative employment; and

(d) all the other circumstances of his case:

Provided that no compensation shall be payable to such a claimant as is mentioned in proviso (i) to sub-paragraph (2) of the next succeeding paragraph if the security of tenure of the work or employment undertaken, obtained or offered as therein mentioned is substantially similar to that of the employment lost and the amount of the annual rate of the emoluments of the employment lost does not exceed the amount of the annual rate of the emoluments of the work or employment undertaken, obtained or offered as aforesaid by more than five per cent. of the first-mentioned amount.