Superannuation Act 1965
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1965 c. 74 |
(1) F2The Minister for the Civil Service may make rules with respect to the superannuation benefits payable to or in respect of persons who have been employed in more than one public office.modify F3any enactments forming part of the law of the United Kingdom or any part thereof . . . which are for the time being in force and under which pensions are payable in respect of employment in a public office,apply the provisions of F5the civil service scheme, with or without modifications, in substitution for any enactments forming part of the law of the United Kingdom or any part thereof . . ., notwithstanding that F5that scheme is not otherwise applicable in relation to any of those public offices,make provisions as to the manner in which any pensions are to be defrayed, and in particular make provision for the payment of a transfer value by one pension authority to another, including the payment of a transfer value out of the Exchequer,define the kinds of public offices which are to be treated for the purposes of the rules as different public offices,(3) Rules under this section may provide either for separate pensions under the respective enactments relating to the different employments or for a single pension under the enactments relating to the later or latest employment (or by virtue of subsection (2) (b) of this section under F6the civil service scheme or employ partly the one method and partly the other:Provided that if the rules provide for separate pensions in relation to different public offices the rules shall not modify F6the civil service scheme or any other enactments so as to include as reckonable service in computing one of the separate pensions service in a public office in respect of which another of those separate pensions is payable. (4) Rules under this section may be so framed as to apply to persons ceasing to be employed in one public office and becoming employed in another notwithstanding that the cessation of the first employment or the commencement of the second employment was before the date of the making of the rules:Provided that no rules shall be framed so as to apply when the cessation of the first employment took place before the making of the rules unless the rules are only to apply with the consent of the person ceasing to be employed, or that person is by the rules given an opportunity to elect that they shall not apply to him. (5) If the application of the rules in force under this section would put a particular individual in a position less advantageous than that in which he would have been if the rules did not apply in relation to him, they shall not be so applied.F7(5A) References in this section to enactments shall be construed as including references to the civil service scheme, and in this section ”the civil service scheme’ means the principal civil service pension scheme within the meaning of section 2 of the Superannuation Act 1972 and for the time being in force.(6) In this section “pension”, in relation to any person, means a pension of any kind whatsoever payable to or in respect of him, and includes a lump sum or gratuity so payable.Employment in the civil service (whether or not in an established capacity) .Employment in any other capacity remunerated out of moneys provided by Parliament or the Consolidated Fund or the Post Office Fund or the revenue of the Isle of Man, but not including employment in the armed forces of the Crown.Subject to subsection (5) of this section, employment in the civil service of the Government of Northern Ireland (whether or not in an established capacity) .Subject to subsection (5) of this section, employment in any other capacity remunerated out of moneys provided by the Parliament of Northern Ireland or the Consolidated Fund of Northern Ireland.Employment in the civil service of the government of any colony, or of any country or place outside Her Majesty’s dominions in which for the time being Her Majesty has jurisdiction, or of any territory consisting partly of one or more colonies and partly of one or more such countries or places.Employment as an officer to whom the Employment which is remunerated out of any of the following funds, or out of the revenues of any of the following bodies—
- The Agricultural Research Council.
- The Church Commissioners.
- F8The Countryside Council for Wales.
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- The Development Fund. ...
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