1.-(1) Where a person was on the 1st October 1963 taken into the civil service of the State as an officer of the Ministry of Labour after having been employed in a whole-time capacity by the Royal National Institute for the Blind or the Birmingham Royal Institution for the Blind on the resettlement of blind persons by obtaining for them suitable employment or on training them for employment, and his employment by the body by whom he was so employed was, in the opinion of the Treasury, of the same nature and for the same purpose as his employment in the service of the State, his service in employment by that body before the 1st October 1963 but not before the 4th February 1946 may be reckoned for the purposes of the Superannuation Acts as employment in an unestablished capacity within the meaning of Section 3 of the Superannuation Act 1935.

(2) Where a person to whom the foregoing paragraph applies was, before he was taken into the service of the State, a participant in a pension scheme under which contributions were paid in respect of him by the body by whom he was so employed as aforesaid, and under that scheme he has been granted or is eligible for any benefit, it shall be a condition of the making of any payment under the Superannuation Acts in respect of his service, so far as the amount of that payment is dependent on the provision of the foregoing paragraph, that there has been paid to the Treasury sum equal to the aggregate amount of the contributions paid in respect of him by the body by whom he was employed, together with compound interest thereon calculated from the date on which each such contribution became payable at the rate of 3 per cent. per annum with yearly rests.

(3) These Rules shall not have effect so as to authorise an increase in an annual superannuation allowance or pension so far as the allowance or pension is payable in respect of a period before the coming into operation of these Rules.

2.-(1) In these Rules "the Superannuation Acts" means the Superannuation Acts 1834 to 1960.

(2) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply for the interpretation of these Rules as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament

3. These Rules may be cited as the Superannuation (Institutes for the Blind and Civil Service) Transfer Rules 1964 and shall come into operation on 26th May 1964.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The Rules provide for service (not being service before 4th February 1946 or before age 18) with the Royal National Institute for the Blind or the Birmingham Royal Institution for the Blind of employees engaged on the resettlement of blind persons who were taken into the Civil Service on 1st October 1963 to be reckoned, subject to certain conditions, as unestablished civil service for the purposes of the Superannuation Acts.