Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Act, 1949

Cesser of certain provisions of manual workers superannuation scheme.

12.—(1) The provisions (other than the excepted provisions) contained pursuant to subsection (3) of section 7 of the Superannuation Act of 1942 in the manual workers superannuation scheme shall cease to have effect.

(2) In subsection (1) of this section, the expression ‘the excepted provisions’ means the following provisions contained pursuant to subsection (3) of section 7 of the Superannuation Act of 1942 in the manual workers superannuation scheme, that is to say:—

(a) the provision that only continuous service in the employment of the Board ending on the date of retirement from employment on account of age or ill-health shall qualify or be reckonable for superannuation benefits under the scheme,

(b) the provision that in the reckoning of continuous service in the employment of the Board of any manual worker, any period of service of the worker in the employment of the Board prior to a break after the passing of the Superannuation Act of 1942 in that service shall be included if, but only if, either the contributions to the fund set up for the purposes of the scheme by the worker in respect of such period of service remain in the said fund or, where a sum in respect of such contributions or such contributions and interest thereon has been repaid to the worker, such sum is refunded to the said fund whether with or without interest,

(c) the provision consisting of the overriding limitation that only that service prior to such break which would have been so reckonable if such break had not occurred shall be included.