Local, Government (Superannuation) Act, 1948

Refund in respect of service under another authority.

66.—(1) Where a lump sum, allowance or gratuity is granted under this Act to or in respect of any person by a local authority (in this section referred to as the granting authority) and, in determining the amount thereof, any period of service under another local authority or a harbour authority or mental hospital board (in this section referred to as the contributing authority) has been reckoned, the contributing authority shall refund to the granting authority a part of the lump sum, allowance or gratuity (or, if the granting authority are a vocational education committee, a part of one-half of the lump sum allowance or gratuity) determined by reference to such person's periods of service under the contributing authority and the granting authority and his remunerations during those periods, and such part shall be settled by agreement between the contributing authority and the granting authority or, in default of agreement, by the Minister (after consultation, where the contributing authority are a harbour authority, with the Minister for Industry and Commerce).

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1) of this section, service under a committee of a contributing authority shall be deemed to have been service under such contributing authority and service under a joint committee of two or more contributing authorities shall be deemed to have been service under every such contributing authority.