15ABTransfer of contributor from council to council

15AB Transfer of contributor from council to council

15AB Transfer of contributor from council to council

(1) Where the board is satisfied, on an application in writing made to the board on a form approved by the board by a contributor by whom an application has not been made under subsection (2) of section 15V, or subsection (3) of section 15Y, that the contributor has ceased, or is to cease, to be employed in the service of a council and proposes to enter, within a reasonable time, the service of another council, the board may approve of the retention in that contributor’s servant’s account, for such period as may be specified in the approval, of the moneys standing to his credit in that account.

(2) An application under subsection (1) may be made by a contributor at any time before he ceases to be employed in the service of a council or within twenty-one days after he so ceases to be employed.

(3) An approval under subsection (1)—

(a) may be given subject to such terms and conditions relating to the payment by the contributor—

(i) of the contributions that would, had he not ceased to be employed in the service of the council, have been payable under this Part in respect of him during the period, or

(ii) of the contributions paid in respect of him for the period, commencing on the date on which he ceased to be employed and ending on the date on which he commences service with the other council or on the date on which the period referred to in that approval expires, whichever is the earlier, and

(b) shall cease to be in force if the contributor fails to comply with any of those terms and conditions.

(4) From the date on which any approval under subsection (1) is given until the approval ceases to be in force or until the contributor enters the service of another council, whichever first occurs—

(a) the provisions of subsection (1) of section 15V, and of subsection (1) of section 15Y, do not apply to that contributor, and

(b) that contributor remains a contributor for the purposes of sections 15W and 15X and his salary shall, for the purposes of those sections, be deemed to be the annual salary that was payable to him immediately before he ceased to be employed.

(5) Where a contributor in respect of whom an approval under subsection (1) has been given by the board has left the service of a council and, while the approval was in force, enters the service of another council—