Article 3
For the purposes of paragraph 27(2)(b) and (4)(a), a person shall be treated for a period during which he is not or was not in the employment of any person engaged in the railway industry as if he were or had been in the employment of such a person—
where, within fourteen days after its commencement (or, if shorter, the period ending at midnight on the second Monday after its commencement), that period ends or ended in consequence of his entering the employment of a person engaged in the railway industry who is or was the person by whom he had been employed immediately before the commencement of that period;
where that period ends or ended in consequence of his entering the employment of a person engaged in the railway industry (whether or not that person is or was the person by whom he had been employed immediately before the commencement of that period) pursuant to a statutory or contractual right to do so which existed at the commencement of that period;
where, during that period, he is or was treated as if he had not ceased to be in the employment of a person falling within sub-paragraph (i), (ii) or (iii) of paragraph 27(1)(a) for the purposes of paragraph 27(2)(a) by virtue of article 2(1)(c) or (e) of this Order;
where that period ends or ended because, in consequence of any action to which this sub-paragraph applies, he is or was reinstated or re-engaged in the employment of a person engaged in the railway industry (whether or not that person is or was the person by whom he had been employed immediately before the commencement of that period).
Sub-paragraph (d) of paragraph (1) of this article applies to any action taken in relation to the dismissal of a person who, by virtue of that dismissal, ceases, or ceased, to be in the employment of a person engaged in the railway industry which consists of any of the actions referred to in sub-paragraphs (a) to (e) of paragraph (2) of article 2 of this Order.