Regulation 3 Persons to whom the regulations apply

is employed immediately before the material date, either for the whole or for a part only of his time, as an officer of a local authority or local valuation panel or under such an officer for the purposes of the functions of the local authority or local valuation panel, as the case may be, or

would be so employed at that time but for any national service on which he is then engaged.

any member of a fire brigade of a class prescribed by the Firemen's Pension Scheme for the time being in force under section 26 of the Fire Services Act 1947, for the purposes of section 2 of the Fire Services Act 1951, or

any officer of a local authority in his capacity as clerk of the peace or deputy clerk of the peace of a borough, or

any other person in relation to an employment in which substantially the whole of his time is devoted to assisting a clerk of the peace or deputy clerk of the peace of a county or borough in the performance of the duties of his office.