Superannuation Act, 1942

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Established service of certain technical assistants in the Ordnance Survey.

3.—(1) Where—

(a) a certificate was issued under sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Act of 1923 in respect of a person who is serving, at the date of the passing of this Act, in an unestablished position as a technical assistant in the Ordnance Survey, and

(b) such person was before the 1st day of April, 1922, employed as an unestablished civil assistant in the Ordnance Survey and received a gratuity on ceasing to be so employed, and

(c) the period commencing on the date on which such person was so employed as an unestablished civil assistant and ending on the date immediately before the date of the passing of this Act is fifteen years or more,

the following provisions shall, for the purposes of the Superannuation Acts, have effect, that is to say:—

(i) such person shall be deemed, as on and from the expiration of fifteen years from the commencement of such period, to have been appointed to an established position in the Civil Service, and

(ii) for the purposes of the Superannuation Acts, the service of such person may be reckoned as established service as from a date seven and a half years prior to the date of such expiration.

(2) Where—

(a) a certificate was issued under sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Act of 1923, in respect of a person who was serving in an unestablished position as a technical assistant in the Ordnance Survey, but who retired from that position before the date of the passing of this Act, and

(b) such person was before the 1st day of April, 1922, employed as an unestablished civil assistant in the Ordnance Survey and received a gratuity on ceasing to be so employed, and

(c) the period commencing on the date on which such person was so employed as a civil assistant and ending on the date immediately before the date on which such person retired from his position as an unestablished technical assistant in the Ordnance Survey was fifteen years or more,

the following provisions shall, for the purposes of the Superannuation Acts have effect, that is to say:—

(i) such person, if alive at the date of the passing of this Act, shall be deemed, as on and from the expiration of fifteen years from the commencement of such period, to have been appointed to an established position in the Civil Service, and

(ii) for the purposes of the Superannuation Acts, the service of such person may be reckoned as established service as from a date seven and a half years prior to the date of such expiration.

(3) The provisions of sub-section (2) of this section shall apply to a person to whom they would apply if he had rendered continuous service in the Ordnance Survey from the date on which a certificate in respect of him was issued under sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Act of 1923 to the date of his retirement, and any periods during which he served in the Ordnance Survey from the date of the said certificate to the date of his retirement may be reckoned as one continuous period of service for the purposes of the Superannuation Acts.