http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1949/489/madeThe Local Government (Compensation) (Amendment) Regulations 1949WestlawKing's Printer of Acts of Parliament2011-04-05LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND In order to qualify for compensation on loss of employment or diminution of emoluments under the Local Government (Compensation) Regulations, 1948, an officer must have served in certain prescribed employments for a defined period. These regulations enable an officer to include in the defined period war service following any such prescribed employment, and thus rectify an inadvertent omission from the original regulations. 1949 No. 489 LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND The Local Government (Compensation) (Amendment) Regulations, 1949 Made 21st March 1949 Laid before Parliament 22nd March 1949 Coming into Operation 1st April 1949 The Minister of Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 140 of the Local Government Act, 1948, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following regulations:— 1 1 These regulations may be cited as the Local Government (Compensation) (Amendment) Regulations, 1949, and shall come into operation on the first day of April, 1949. 2 These regulations and the Local Government (Compensation) Regulations, 1948, shall be construed as one, and may be cited together as the Local Government (Compensation) Regulations, 1948 and 1949. 3 The Interpretation Act, 1889, applies to the interpretation of these regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament. 2 In regulation 2 of the Local Government (Compensation) Regulations, 1948, in paragraph (a) of the definition of “existing officer”, there shall be added the words “provided that any war service undertaken on ceasing to follow any of the said employments or any combination thereof shall be deemed to be a continuation of that employment or combination of employments”. Given under the official seal of the Minister of Health this twenty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-nine. Aneurin Bevan Minister of Health EXPLANATORY NOTE

In order to qualify for compensation on loss of employment or diminution of emoluments under the Local Government (Compensation) Regulations, 1948, an officer must have served in certain prescribed employments for a defined period. These regulations enable an officer to include in the defined period war service following any such prescribed employment, and thus rectify an inadvertent omission from the original regulations.

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