Regulation 8

Any person (hereinafter referred to as an “officer on war service” ) who is engaged in war service immediately before the material date and who, if he had continued to be employed until the material date in the capacity in which he was employed before becoming engaged in war service, would have been an existing officer, shall be deemed to be an existing officer within the meaning of these regulations, and if at the date on which he ceased to be so employed he was subject to a pension scheme, and his war service or any part thereof would be reckonable for the purposes of that scheme if he again became subject thereto on the termination of his war service, he shall also be deemed to be a pensionable officer within the meaning of these regulations.

The expression “the material date,” in relation to an officer on war service, means the date on which functions of the authority or body by whom he was employed before becoming engaged in war service ceased in consequence of the coming into force of any Part of the Act.