The Commonwealth Telegraphs (Cable and Wireless Ltd. Pension) Regulations 1955

Staff becoming unestablished or part-time civil servants

20.—(1) This regulation shall apply to any transferee who, under arrangements made between him or a staff association on his behalf and the Postmaster-General, elects to become eligible for the pension rights of a person employed in the civil service of the State in an unestablished capacity or in part-time service, instead of retaining the pension rights to which he was entitled by virtue of his employment with the Company.

(2) The service of any person to whom this regulation applies in the full-time or part-time employment of the Company, and the service of any such person in the full-time or part-time employment of any of the Companies mentioned in the Second Schedule hereto, being in either case service which, by virtue of any agreement, arrangement, or customary practice of the Company, was reckonable by the Company for the purpose of retiring or death gratuity or other pension, shall, for the purposes of the provisions of the Superannuation Acts which relate to the payment of death and retirement gratuities in respect of unestablished civil servants, be treated as if it had been service in the civil service of the State in an unestablished capacity or part-time service in the civil service of the State, as the case may be.

(3) If any such person subsequently becomes an established civil servant, the Superannuation Acts shall have effect in relation to him notwithstanding that, although his appointment is not held directly from the Crown, he is admitted without a certificate of the Civil Service Commissioners; and any such service of his as is mentioned in paragraph (2) of this regulation shall, for the purposes of the provisions of the Superannuation Acts which relate to the reckoning of unestablished or part-time service for the purpose of an award to an established civil servant, be treated as if it had been employment in the civil service of the State in an unestablished capacity or in part-time service as the case may be, the whole of which had been served before the passing of the Superannuation Act, 1949.