385. Computation of short service benefit.

A scheme1 must provide for short service benefit2 to be computed on the same basis as long service benefit3 and for that purpose, no account is to be taken of any rule making it (directly or indirectly) a condition of entitlement to benefit that pensionable service4 must have been of any minimum duration5. This computation requirement does not, however, apply to so much of any benefit as accrues at a higher rate, or otherwise more favourably, in the case: (1) of members6 with a period of pensionable service of some specified minimum length; or (2) of members remaining in