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Repayment of gratuity.
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70.—(1) Where a person, having been granted a gratuity by a local authority, subsequently becomes employed in a position service in which is capable of being reckoned under this Act, he shall be entitled, before the expiration of twelve months, or such longer period as the local authority in the circumstances of the particular case consider reasonable, after the subsequent appointment, to repay to the local authority such gratuity and, if he does repay it—
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(a) notwithstanding any other provision, the period in respect of which such gratuity was granted shall be regarded as not being a period in respect of which he has received a gratuity, and
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(b) in case any other body recouped any part of it, the local authority shall make the appropriate repayment to such other body.
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(2) Where—
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(a) a repayment has been made under this section to a local authority, and
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(b) the case is one in which the gratuity was paid by another local authority,
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the first-mentioned local authority shall transfer to the other local authority—
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(i) in case the first-mentioned local authority are a vocational education committee—one-half of the repayment, and
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(ii) in any other case—the whole of the repayment.
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