Article 4 Qualifying period of reckonable service

For paragraph (2) of article 10 of the principal Order there shall be substituted—

“(2)

For the purposes of paragraph (1)(c) of this article, service of a participant as a member of another Parliament, whether rendered before on or after 2nd April 1991, may count towards his qualifying period, provided that any period during which he serves concurrently in more than one Parliament shall count only once.

(3)

In paragraph (2) above, Parliament means the European Parliament, the House of Commons, the Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales or the Northern Ireland Assembly.”.