Regulation 17 Concurrent employments

After regulation 31, insert–

“Concurrent employments

31A.

(1)

Where a person–

(a)

ceases to be an active member in one employment in respect of which he had at least two years' total membership (“the first employment”); and

(b)

continues as an active member in another employment he held concurrently with the first employment,

he may elect to have his former membership in respect of the first employment aggregated with his membership in that other employment.

(2)

If he so elects, the provisions of regulation 31 shall apply as if references to–

(a)

his former membership or former active membership were references to his membership from his first employment;

(b)

the new employment were references to his concurrent employment; and

(c)

the employment in which he becomes an active member again were references to that concurrent employment.

(3)

If no election is received within one month of a notification by an administering authority to a person of his right to elect under paragraph (1), the administering authority may aggregate his former membership in respect of the first employment with his membership in the other employment.

(4)

In the case of a person to whom this regulation applies, the period of membership which will be aggregated with his membership from the concurrent employment will be equal to his membership from his first employment, as reduced under regulation 10(4) if the first employment was part-time, multiplied by the fraction–

$$\genfrac{}{}{0.1ex}{}{\mathit{whole-time\; rate\; of\; pay\; in\; the\; first\; employment}}{\mathit{whole-time\; rate\; of\; pay\; in\; concurrent\; employment}}$$

where

• the rate of pay in each case is the annual pay as defined in regulation 12 on the last day of employment in the employment which has ceased.”.