Provision for prior service

(1) An officer or soldier who has to his credit any pensionable service within the meaning of the Pensions Act or Regulations made thereunder or under the School Teachers Pensions Act immediately before enlisting in the Belize Defence Force shall be entitled to have such pensionable service counted, with the approval of the appropriate authority, as reckonable service for the grant of a pension under these Regulations. (2) An officer or soldier who immediately before enlisting in the Belize Defence Force has been serving full time for a period in a civil capacity in the service of the Government otherwise than in a pensionable office may be permitted to have such period of service counted, with the approval of the appropriate authority, as reckonable service for the grant of pension under these Regulations. Term.