Regulation 7 Purchase of current added years

there shall be added the following paragraphs after paragraph (3):—

“(3A)

For the purposes only of this regulation, a teacher’s employment in reckonable service is not discontinued while he is absent from duty during and in consequence of a trade dispute.

(3B)

Paragraph (3A) applies—

(a)

even if the person was not participating in or financing or otherwise directly interested in the trade dispute, and

(b)

even if his employer was not a party to the trade dispute.

(3C)

In this regulation “trade dispute” has the meaning given by section 29 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974(^f1).”

paragraph (6) is hereby revoked.