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Regulation 4 Meaning of “further employment”

(1)

A person (P) who re-enters pensionable employment after a retirement pension falling within paragraph (2) or a short-service serious ill-health grant becomes payable enters “further employment” for the purpose of these Regulations.

(2)

A retirement pension falls within this paragraph if—

(a)

on the pension becoming payable, P had no reckonable service other than reckonable service previously used to calculate a benefit (including the pension), and

(b)

the pension is not an ill-health pension.

(3)

Paragraph (2)(b) does not apply if at the time when P enters the employment mentioned in paragraph (1)—

(a)

where P is a pre-2007 entrant, P is at least 60, or

(b)

where P is a person with mixed service or a 2007 or later entrant, P is at least 65.