PENSION 1 1 These rules may be cited as the Superannuation (Local Government Staffs) (National Service) (Amendment) Rules, 1951, and shall come into operation on the seventeenth day of December, 1951, but shall have effect and be deemed always to have had effect as from the fifteenth day of July, 1950. 2 These rules and the Superannuation (Local Government Staffs) (National Service) Rules, 1949 , shall be construed as one, and may be cited together as the Superannuation (Local Government Staffs) (National Service) Rules, 1949 and 1951. 3 The Interpretation Act, 1889, applies to the interpretation of these rules as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament. 4 In these rules, the expression “ rule ” means rule contained in the Superannuation (Local Government Staffs) (National Service) Rules, 1949 . 2 In rule 1, in paragraph 2 thereof— a in the definition of “national service” there shall be inserted after the words “the Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1948” the words “as amended by section 41 of the Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act, 1951, or service of a description specified in the First Schedule to that Act other than compulsory national service as in that Act defined” , and the word “compulsory” where it last occurs shall be deleted; and b the following definition shall be added:— ‘ national service pay ’, in relation to the remuneration to which any person would have been entitled if he had continued in any former employment during the period of his national service, means his pay (including marriage, family and other similar allowances) in respect of his national service or, in the case of a person who immediately before he entered upon national service was employed not only in that employment but also in any other employment or employments in relation to which it is necessary to ascertain his pay in respect of his national service, an amount which bears the same proportion to his pay (including marriage, family and other similar allowances) in respect of his national service as the remuneration to which he would have been entitled if he had continued in the first mentioned employment bears to the total remuneration to which he would have been entitled if he had continued in both or all such employments as aforesaid . 3 In rule 4, the following provisions shall be added:— ; or c require the payment of contributions by a person (other than a person who became engaged in compulsory national service as defined in the Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act, 1951) in respect of any period of national service if his national service pay in respect of that period, together with any sum which the authority or body by whom he was formerly employed may resolve to pay to or in respect of him in supplementation of that national service pay, is less than the remuneration to which he would have been entitled in respect of that period if he had continued in his former employment, after the deduction therefrom of an amount equivalent to the contributions which he would in that event have been liable to make thereon; or d in the case of any person (other than a person who became engaged in such compulsory national service as aforesaid) whose national service pay in respect of any period of national service, together with any such sum as aforesaid in respect of that period, is less than such remuneration as aforesaid but is greater than such remuneration as aforesaid after such deduction as aforesaid, require contributions to be made by that person in respect of that period exceeding the difference in respect of that period between his national service pay, together with any such sum as aforesaid, and the amount of such remuneration as aforesaid, after such deduction as aforesaid. 4 A new rule 4A shall be inserted after rule 4 in the following terms— 4A Where by virtue of proviso ( c ) or ( d ) to the last preceding rule, a person is not required in respect of any period of national service to make the contributions, or to make the full amount of the contributions, which he would have been liable to make apart from the said proviso, the authority or body by whom he was formerly employed shall pay in respect of him to the superannuation fund to which he was a contributor in respect of his former employment a sum sufficient to make up any deficit of contributions to the full amount which he would have been liable to contribute to that fund had he continued in his former employment, and that authority or body shall also pay to that fund any contribution which in that event they would have been liable to pay thereto: Provided that for the purpose of any provision of the Act of 1937 or any local Act scheme relating to the return of contributions on a person ceasing to be employed or dying any payments made under this rule shall be disregarded. Given under the official seal of the Minister of Housing and Local Government this fifth day of December, nineteen hundred and fifty-one. Harold Macmillan Minister of Housing and Local Government