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“G.4. Option to aggregate earlier membership: previous members of the AFPS 1975
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(1) This rule applies in the case of a re-employed active member to whom rule G.3 does not apply who was awarded a preserved pension and lump sum under the AFPS 1975 in respect of qualifying and reckonable service which ended before 6th April 2005.
(2) The member may opt for the qualifying and reckonable service in respect of which the member was awarded the preserved pension—
(a)to be aggregated with the reckonable service and qualifying service that he is entitled to count as a result of his membership of the Scheme in the current service for the purpose of determining rights under the Scheme in respect of that membership, and
(b)to be disregarded for all other purposes.
This is subject to paragraphs (3) and (4) and rule G.5.
(3) If the member was awarded two or more preserved pensions under the AFPS 1975, the member may only exercise the option under paragraph (2) in relation to the service to which the later or, if there are more than two, the latest of the awards relates.
(4) If—
(a)the award under the AFPS 1975 of a member who exercises an option under this rule is subject to a pension debit, and
(b)in the opinion of the Scheme administrator it is necessary for the purpose of giving effect to the pension debit for some or all of the benefits to which the pension member is entitled under the Scheme as a result of exercising the option to be taken in a different form from that in which he would otherwise be entitled to take them,
the Scheme administrator may, after taking advice from the Scheme actuary, make such modifications to the member’s rights as to the form of those benefits as he considers necessary for that purpose.
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