Regulation 7 Early retirement for Members

For paragraph (2) of regulation H1 of the Principal Regulations, there shall be substituted—

“(2)

For the purposes of this regulation, service of a person as a member of another Parliament or Assembly, 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 or Assembly shall count only once.

(3)

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