- additional contributory payments
means— (a) additional contributory payments within the meaning of the National Health Service (Superannuation) Regulations 1961, as amended;
- compensation question
means a question arising under these regulations— (a) as to a person's entitlement to compensation for loss of employment, or for loss or diminution of emoluments;
- decision date
means the date on which any decision on a claim for long-term or retirement compensation is notified to a claimant under regulation 33.
- emoluments
means all salary, wages, fees and other payments paid or made to an officer as such for his own use, and also the money value of any accommodation or other allowances in kind appertaining to his employment, but does not include payments for overtime which are not a usual incident of his employment, or any allowances payable to him to cover the cost of providing officer accommodation or clerical or other assistance, or any travelling or subsistence allowance or other moneys to be spent, or to cover expenses incurred, by him for the purposes of his employment;
- long-term compensation
means compensation payable in accordance with the provisions of Part IV of these regulations for loss of employment or loss or diminution of emoluments;
- national insurance benefit
means any unemployment, sickness, invalidity or injury benefit or retirement pension payable under any enactment whether passed before or after these regulations come into force relating to national insurance, other than a benefit claimable by him in respect of a dependant.
- normal retiring age
means, in the case of a pensionable officer to whom an age of compulsory retirement applied by virtue of any enactment to which he was subject in the employment which he has lost or the emoluments of which have been diminished or by virtue of the conditions of that employment, that age, and in any other case, the age of 65 if the officer is a male, or 60 if the officer is a female;
- relevant employment
means employment— (a) under the Crown or by any person, authority or body for the purposes of the Crown;
- resettlement compensation
means compensation payable in accordance with the provisions of Part III of these regulations for loss of employment;
- retirement compensation
means compensation payable in accordance with the provisions of regulation 17, 18 or 19;
- Secretary of State
means Secretary of State for Social Services;
- the Act
means the National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973;
- the Acts
means the National Health Service Act 1946 and the Act;
- tribunal
means a tribunal established under section 12 of the Industrial Training Act 1964;
- war service
means war service within the meaning of the Local Government Staffs (War Service) Act 1939, the Teachers Superannuation (War Service) Act 1939, the Education (Scotland) (War Service Superannuation) Act 1939 or the Police and Firemen (War Service) Act 1939 or employment for war purposes within the meaning of the Superannuation Schemes (War Service) Act 1940 if such service or employment immediately followed a period of relevant employment and was undertaken either compulsorily or with the permission of the employer in that employment.
- weekly rate
means seven 365ths of the relevant annual rate, and the expression “national insurance benefit” means any unemployment, sickness, invalidity or injury benefit or retirement pension payable under any enactment whether passed before or after these regulations come into force relating to national insurance, other than a benefit claimable by him in respect of a dependant.