National Insurance (Non-participation—Assurance of Equivalent Pension Benefits) Regulations 1960

Conditions for treating two employments as a single continuous employmentU.K.

10.—(1) For the purpose of paragraph (b) of subsection (4) of section 9 of the Act of 1959 (which paragraph provides for prescribing the period within which a person, on the coming to an end of service in one non-participating employment, must enter another non-participating employment, if the two employments are to be treated as a single continuous employment as provided by that subsection) the prescribed period shall be until the end of the assurance period relating to the previous employment.

(2) The provisions of the said subsection (4) (which provides that, for the purpose of any liability to make a payment in lieu of contributions, two employments are in certain cases to be treated as a single continuous employment) shall not apply, save in a case where both employments are under the same employer, unless the certificate described in regulation 11 is given and delivered in accordance with that regulation.

(3) Paragraph (c) of the said subsection (4) (which requires that service in the previous employment is service qualifying a person for equivalent pension benefits under the recognised superannuation scheme relating to his new employment) shall not apply in any case where—

(a)the previous employment and the new employment are both employments of any class to which section 12 of the Act of 1959 (which relates to certain statutory superannuation schemes) applies, and are in different such classes; and

(b)the appropriate Minister has in each case by regulations under subsection (1) of the said section 12 directed that elections with a view to the issue, variation, cancellation or surrender of certificates under Part II of the Act of 1959 shall be made and revoked by him instead of by the employer; and

(c)certificates under the said Part II relating to those employments have been issued to the appropriate Ministers and remain in force, and the recognised superannuation schemes by virtue of which those certificates were issued were established by or under the enactments specified in the Second Schedule to the Act of 1959 in the entries relating respectively to the previous employment and the new employment; and

(d)such provision is made by those schemes (including provision by the scheme relating to the new employment for taking into account in any manner the service in the previous employment) that, were they to be treated as together constituting a single recognised superannuation scheme relating to both employments, the provisions of the said paragraph (c) would be satisfied.

(4) Where two or more employments are treated as a single continuous employment by virtue of the foregoing paragraph, the reference in paragraph (1) of regulation 7 to the appropriate recognised superannuation scheme shall include a reference to a recognised superannuation scheme relating to a previous employment making such provision as falls to be taken into account under sub-paragraph (d) of the foregoing paragraph, and the provisions of regulation 7 and the Schedule shall apply subject to the necessary modifications.