SECTION 3: SERVICE
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Qualifying service
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| 3.01 |
"Qualifying service" means service counting towards
the appropriate qualifying periods required by the Rules.
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Aggregation of qualifying service
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| 3.02 |
The total qualifying service is the aggregate of :
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subject to Rule 3.09, the period of the member’s continuous
employment as a member ending with his last day of service for which contributions
have been paid by him or were not required from him in accordance with the
Rules of the Scheme (other than service for which his contributions under
Rule 2.01 or in the case of a former non industrial scheme member Former
Rule 2(1) of the Principal Non Industrial Superannuation Scheme have been
returned to him and not subsequently repaid by him);
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(ii) |
any period of back service credit which has been allowed to
him under Rule 4.30 (in the case of a former non industrial scheme member),
9.18(3) or paragraph 16 of Appendix 4;
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(iii) |
any additional qualifying years allowed to him by the Authority
under Rule 3.03;
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any added years allowed under Rules 3.16 to 3.29;
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(v) |
any service as an employee under a scheme within the Federated
Superannuation System for Universities if such service is followed immediately
by service as a member of this Scheme which is reckonable, or in accordance
with Paragraph 20 of Appendix 4.
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Where the member’s conditioned hours prior to 1 January 1995
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(a) |
are 15 or more per week; or
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(b) |
in the case of conditions of employment requiring a repeated
cycle of service, average 15 or more per week over the period of the cycle;
or
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(c) |
in the case of conditions of employment requiring service
during only part or parts of the year average 15 or more a week over that
part or parts, each week which forms part of the conditions of employment
will qualify as one week’s full-time service. Part-time service of less
than 18 hours a week rendered before 1 January 1985 does not qualify, unless
the member was in service on that date and exercised an option to join the
Scheme pursuant to an offer on the part of the Authority that such service
shall not count as qualifying service subject to payment of contributions
in respect of it, in which case his continuous part-time service of not
less than 15 hours a week may count as qualifying service.
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Grant of additional qualifying years
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| 3.03 |
In exceptional circumstances, with the approval of the HM Revenue and Customs , where an employer is satisfied that the personal qualifications
of an applicant for employment are such as to merit special treatment, the
Authority may grant him such number of additional years of qualifying and
reckonable service as the Authority may determine; such additional years
shall accrue evenly from the date of entry to the Scheme until retirement
age.
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Purchase of earlier qualification for benefits
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(1) |
A member who on medical examination is found to be in good
health, regard being had to his age, may elect to secure that, in the event
of his retiring on grounds of ill-health or dying before completing 5 years’
qualifying and reckonable service (exclusive of added years purchased under
Rule 3.16 or in the case of a former non industrial member Former Rule 4
of the Principal Non Industrial Superannuation Scheme), benefits shall be
payable as if he had completed 5 years’ qualifying and reckonable service
(exclusive of added years purchased under Rule 3.16 or in the case of a
former non industrial member Former Rule 4 of the Principal Non Industrial
Superannuation Scheme).
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(2) |
A member for whom it will not be possible to reckon 5 or more
years’ service by his retirement age (after taking into account any reckonable
service credited to him under Rule 9.18(3) may not make an election under
paragraph (1) of this Rule.
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(3) |
A member who has made an election under paragraph (1) of this
Rule shall comply with Rule 2.08.
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Nothing in this Rule shall affect elections which were under
Former Rule 9 bis (or, in the case of a former non industrial scheme member
Former Rule 4A), which will continue to apply to such elections subject
to and in accordance with any variations thereto agreed between the member
and the Authority having regard to the Actuary’s advice.
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| 3.05 |
unallocated.
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