Paragraph 1 Participants with service between 1st January 1972 and 1st August 1978.
This paragraph applies to—
any person who served as a participating Member at any time on or after 1st January 1972 and who has not served as a participating Member at any time after 1st August 1978; or
any person who served as a participating office holder at any time on or after 1st April 1972 and who had not served as a participating office holder at any time after 1st August 1978; or
any person to whom both (a) or (b) above apply.
Subject to the next following sub-paragraph and to regulation N2 (refunds), regulation P3 (transfers out) and regulation P5 (transfers in), for the purposes of these Regulations—
any period or periods not exceeding 10 years before 16th October 1964 during which a person was a Member of the House of Commons, and
any period beginning on or after 16th October 1964 during which a person was such a participating Member,
is a period of reckonable service as a participating Member; and in these Regulations “aggregate period of reckonable service as a participating Member”, in relation to a person, means the period, falling within either of the preceding paragraphs, during which he was such a participating Member or (if more than one) the aggregate of such periods.
Subject to regulation N1 (refunds), regulation P4 (transfers out) and regulation P6 (transfers in), for the purposes of these Regulations any period during which a person has been a participating office holder is a period of reckonable service as a participating office holder; and in these Regulations “aggregate period of reckonable service as a participating office holder”, in relation to a person, means his period (or, if more than one, the aggregate of his periods) of reckonable service as a participating office holder.
In these Regulations “aggregate period of reckonable service as a participant”, in relation to a person, means the total of whichever of the following apply to him, namely—
his aggregate period of reckonable service as a participating Member; or
his aggregate period of reckonable service as a participating office holder; or
if (a) and (b) both apply, his aggregate period of reckonable service as a participating Member together with such part if any of his aggregate period of reckonable service as a participating office holder when he was not also a participating Member.