PENSIONS Citation and commencement 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Pensions Increase (Federated Superannuation Scheme for Nurses and Hospital Officers) (Civil Service) Regulations 1972, and shall come into operation on 12th April 1972. Interpretation 2 1 In these Regulations— “ the civil service pension scheme ” means the principal civil service pension scheme within the meaning of section 2 of the Superannuation Act 1972 and for the time being in force; “ dependant ” has the meaning assigned to it by section 3(6) of the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971; “ F.S.S.N. scheme ” means a superannuation scheme operated under the Federated Superannuation Scheme for Nurses and Hospital Officers; “ reckonable service ” has the meaning assigned to it by the Schedule to these Regulations. 2 The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply for the interpretation of these Regulations as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament. 3 Any reference in these Regulations to the provisions of any enactment or regulations shall be construed, unless the context otherwise requires, as a reference to those provisions as amended by any subsequent enactment or regulations. Persons to whom the Regulations apply 3 1 These Regulations apply to any person who— a either— i has retired from employment in the civil service of the State after attaining the age of sixty years; or ii having retired from such employment not earlier than 14th July 1949 before attaining the age of sixty years, has attained that age or satisfies the Minister for the Civil Service that he is disabled by physical or mental infirmity; or iii has retired from such employment on account of physical or mental infirmity; or iv has retired from such employment and is a woman who has at least one dependant; and b at the date of his retirement was subject to an F.S.S.N. scheme and had completed ten years' reckonable service; and c has received, or become entitled to receive, retirement benefit under that scheme. 2 Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1)(a)(ii) above, these Regulations shall not apply to any person who, within twelve months after retiring from employment in the civil service of the State, has entered any of the employment specified in paragraph 2 of the Schedule to these Regulations. 3 For the purposes of paragraph (1) above, a person shall be deemed to have retired after attaining the age of sixty years if he retired within twelve months before attaining that age in such circumstances that he became entitled immediately after his retirement to retirement benefit under an F.S.S.N. scheme. National pension and lump sum 4 1 There shall be ascribed to every person to whom these Regulations apply a notional pension calculated by multiplying one-eightieth of the average annual amount of the salary and emoluments of his office during the last three years of his reckonable service by the number of completed years of his reckonable service. 2 Where a person to whom these Regulations apply has retired from the civil service of the State in such circumstances that, if the civil service pension scheme applied to him, a lump sum would become payable to him by way of retiring allowance upon his subsequently attaining a particular age or becoming disabled by physical or mental infirmity before that age, there shall be ascribed to him a notional lump sum, treated as if it became payable on his attaining that age or becoming so disabled, as the case may be, and calculated by multiplying three-eightieths of the average annual amount of the salary and emoluments of his office during the last three years of his reckonable service by the number of completed years of his reckonable service. 3 In calculating, under paragraph (1) above, the notional pension of a person to whom an allowance was payable before the coming into operation of these Regulations under or by reference to the Pensions Increase (Federated Superannuation Scheme for Nurses and Hospital Officers) (Civil Service) Regulations 1969 , any fraction of a pound in the resulting sum shall be treated as a whole pound. Payment of benefit equivalent to pensions increase 5 The Minister for the Civil Service may, in respect of any period beginning on or after 1st September 1971, pay to any person to whom these Regulations apply an amount equal to the increase which would be payable to him under the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971 if— a there were payable to him— i a superannuation allowance under the civil service pension scheme of an amount equal to the notional pension ascribed to him under Regulation 4(1) above, and ii in a case where a notional lump sum is ascribed to him under Regulation 4(2) above, a lump sum allowance under the civil service pension scheme of an amount equal to and becoming payable at the same time as that notional lump sum, and b any allowance which might (but for the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971) have been paid to him under the Pensions Increase (Federated Superannuation Scheme for Nurses and Hospital Officers) (Civil Service) Regulations 1969 were a relevant increase within the meaning of section 6(10) of that Act. Given under the official seal of the Minister for the Civil Service on the 14th March 1972. A. W. Wyatt Authorised by the Minister for the Civil Service