Pensions Increase (Federated Superannuation Scheme for Nurses and Hospital Officers) (Civil Service) Regulation 1972
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1972 No. 395
PENSIONS
The Pensions Increase (Federated Superannuation scheme for Nurses and Hospital Officers) (Civil Service) Regulations 1972
Made 14th March 1972
Laid before Parliament 21th March 1972
Coming into Operation 12th April 1972
The Minister for the Civil Service, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 13(2) and (5) of the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:—
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Pensions Increase (Federated Superannuation Scheme for Nurses and Hospital Officers) (Civil Service) Regulations 1972, and shall come into operation on 12th April 1972.
Interpretation
2.—(1) In these Regulations—
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(2) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply for the interpretation of these Regulations as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
(3) Any reference in these Regulations to the provisions of any enactment or regulations shall be construed, unless the context otherwise requires, as a reference to those provisions as amended by any subsequent enactment or regulations.
Persons to whom the Regulations apply
3.—(1) These Regulations apply to any person who—
(a)
(a) either—
(i) has retired from employment in the civil service of the State after attaining the age of sixty years; or
(ii) having retired from such employment not earlier than 14th July 1949 before attaining the age of sixty years, has attained that age or satisfies the Minister for the Civil Service that he is disabled by physical or mental infirmity; or
(iii) has retired from such employment on account of physical or mental infirmity; or
(iv) has retired from such employment and is a woman who has at least one dependant; and
(b)
(b) at the date of his retirement was subject to an F.S.S.N. scheme and had completed ten years' reckonable service; and
(c)
(c) has received, or become entitled to receive, retirement benefit under that scheme.
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1)(a)(ii) above, these Regulations shall not apply to any person who, within twelve months after retiring from employment in the civil service of the State, has entered any of the employment specified in paragraph 2 of the Schedule to these Regulations.
(3) For the purposes of paragraph (1) above, a person shall be deemed to have retired after attaining the age of sixty years if he retired within twelve months before attaining that age in such circumstances that he became entitled immediately after his retirement to retirement benefit under an F.S.S.N. scheme.
National pension and lump sum
4.—(1) There shall be ascribed to every person to whom these Regulations apply a notional pension calculated by multiplying one-eightieth of the average annual amount of the salary and emoluments of his office during the last three years of his reckonable service by the number of completed years of his reckonable service.
(2) Where a person to whom these Regulations apply has retired from the civil service of the State in such circumstances that, if the civil service pension scheme applied to him, a lump sum would become payable to him by way of retiring allowance upon his subsequently attaining a particular age or becoming disabled by physical or mental infirmity before that age, there shall be ascribed to him a notional lump sum, treated as if it became payable on his attaining that age or becoming so disabled, as the case may be, and calculated by multiplying three-eightieths of the average...
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