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Annex C

Extracts

The

UK Principal Civil Som

Civil Serce Pension Scheme.

2.27 The retiring age of a prison officer is 55; and after 20 years of actual service as a prison officer (including reckonable war-time service which preceded or interrupted service as a prison officer) further service reckons (subject to the maximum limits laid down in rules 2.3 and 3.31) at double its length, and will so reckon for the purposes of any payment under rule 3.2, or rule 3.32a.

2.28 Service as a mental health officer is treated as service as a prison officer, if the person concerned subsequently joined the civil service under the Superannuation (Transfer of Mental Health Officers) Order 1965 (SI 1965/1041), or under the corresponding transfer arrangement under section 6. 2.

2.28a Where a prison officer retires or leaves the civil service on or after 1 December 1980 and a transfer value under section 6 has been received in respect of service by him as a member of the armed forces of the Crown, a policeman or a fireman, which is reckonable under the Armed Forces Pension Scheme or pensionable under the Police Pensions Regulations or the Firemen's Pension Scheme as the case may be, such service may be treated as service as a prison officer and rules 6.9 to 6.11 will not operate, if this would result in a larger pension under this scheme.

Service overseas

2.29 Service in certain places overseas reckons at one and a half times the length at which it would otherwise have reckoned, if given before 1- June 1972, or if given after that date but as part of a tour of duty which began (or for which a posting was accepted) before it. The places in question are listed in the first column of appendix 6, and this rule applies to service in those places after the dates shown in the second column..

2.30 Rule 2.29 does not apply:

(i) for the purposes of qualifying (as opposed to reckonable)

service;

(ii) to any service which would otherwise have reckoned at more

than one and a half times its actual length;

(iii) if the civil servant was resident in the country or area in

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