Local Government (Superannuation) Act, 1956

Removal from the register of person ceasing to be servant, etc.

31.—(1) A local authority shall remove from the register the name of a person—

(a) who ceases to be a servant of the local authority, or

(b) who during any month of April gives notice in writing to the local authority that his name is to be removed from the register.

(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, where it is the practice of a local authority to take from time to time any particular person into their employment as a servant after a period during which he is not so employed—

(a) the local authority shall not remove the name of such person from the register on any particular occasion when he ceases to be so employed unless they have decided not to so employ him again or he dies and, so long as his name remains in the register on account of this paragraph, he shall for the purposes of section 36, section 39, section 40, section 42 and subsections (4) and (5) of section 44 of this Act be regarded as not having ceased to be so employed,

(b) where, during any particular period when such person is not so employed by the local authority, they decide not to so employ him again or he dies they shall remove his name from the register and, for the purposes of section 36, section 39, section 40, section 42 and subsections (4) and (5) of section 44 of this Act, he shall be regarded as having then ceased to hold his employment.

(3) The removal of a name from the register may be effected by a note on the register indicating that the name has been removed and the date of the removal and the reinstatement of a name in the register may be effected by a note on the register indicating that the name has been reinstated and the date of reinstatement.