1.—(1) Where immediately before 1st November 1968 a person, being a female member of the metropolitan civil staffs, was entitled by reason of her having been in police service on or before 14th June 1939 to advantages corresponding to those conferred in the case of the civil service of the State by Part I or Part III of Schedule 1 to the Superannuation Act 1965, that Part of that Schedule as applied to the metropolitan civil staffs by section 15 of the Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1967 shall have effect in relation to her as if she were such a female person as is mentioned in paragraph 1(1) or, as the case may be, paragraph 11 of that Schedule and, in the latter case, as if the reference in paragraph 12 of that Schedule to 27th June 1935 were a reference to 14th June 1939.

(2) In this Regulation, “police service” means police service within the meaning of the Order(1) made by the Secretary of State on 14th June 1939 in pursuance of the Metropolitan Police Staff (Superannuation) Act 1875.

2.  Where immediately before 1st November 1968 a member of the metropolitan civil staffs was a person to whom, by reason of any provision of Article 3 or 4 thereof, the Metropolitan Police Staffs (Modification of Superannuation Benefits) (National Insurance) Order 1948(2) did not apply, he shall be treated for the purposes of the National Insurance (Modification of the Superannuation Acts) Regulations 1948(3), as applied to members of the metropolitan civil staffs by section 15 of the Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1967, as a person to whom, by reason of the corresponding provision of Regulation 3 or 4 thereof, those Regulations do not apply.

3.—(1) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply for the interpretation of these Regulations as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.

(2) These Regulations may be cited as the Metropolitan Civil Staffs (Superannuation) Regulations 1968 and shall come into operation on 1st November 1968.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

By section 15 of the Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1967, which comes into operation on 1st November 1968, the pensions of the metropolitan civil staffs, that is to say the civil staffs of the metropolitan police and the justices' clerks and other officers of the inner London area, are regulated by the civil service superannuation provisions as applied by that section subject to any modification specified in regulations.

In the past, these pensions have been regulated by Orders made by the Secretary of State on principles similar to those applying in the civil service.

These Regulations modify the civil service provisions, as applied by section 15, so as to preserve vested rights under the old Orders arising in two cases where the date of operation of the old Order was later than that of the corresponding civil service provision.