Local Government (Superannuation) Act, 1956
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Repayment of returned contributions (pensionable officer). |
25.—(1) Where, after the contributions have been returned under section 24 of this Act to a pensionable officer of a local authority on his ceasing to be a pensionable officer, he 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 the amount so returned by them and, if he does repay the said amount and any other body recouped any part of it, the local authority shall make the appropriate repayment to the other body. | |
(2) Where, contributions having been returned under section 32 of the Act of 1948 by a local authority to a person, he 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 becoming so employed, to repay to the local authority the amount so returned by them, and, if he does repay the said amount and any other body recouped any part of it, the local authority shall make the appropriate repayment to the other body. | ||
(3) Where— | ||
(a) a pensionable officer of a local authority has any period of service (other than as an officer or servant of a local authority) that would, if he made the repayment provided for by this subsection, be capable of being reckoned under this Act, and | ||
(b) contributions in respect of the service have been returned to him, | ||
he shall be entitled to repay the amount so returned to the local authority before the expiration of such period as the local authority consider reasonable in the circumstances of the case. | ||
(4) Where— | ||
(a) a repayment has been made under this section to a local authority, and | ||
(b) the case is one in which any lump sum, allowance or gratuity that might be granted by that local authority would be paid by another local authority, | ||
the first-mentioned local authority shall transfer to the other local authority— | ||
(i) in case the first-mentioned local authority are a vocational education committee—one-half of the repayment, and | ||
(ii) in any other case—the whole of the repayment. |