Paragraph 3

Where such part of the period of a person's former employment as was pensionable employment for the purpose of the pension scheme associated with it was shorter than the period of pensionable employment required by him under that pension scheme to secure the maximum payment for which he could qualify under that scheme in relation to any contingency, the accrued rights in relation to that contingency shall (except in a case to which paragraph (b) of the proviso to paragraph 2 applies) be reduced by a proportion corresponding to the degree by which the former period falls short of the latter.