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Paragraph 2

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The cases in which the master or a member of the crew of a pilot boat, lightship, lighthouse tender or lightship tender who has sustained a qualifying injury, or suffered detention, is to be treated as having sustained the injury, or suffered the detention, by reason of his service are where the injury, or the capture on which his detention was consequent, as the case may be, occurred—

(a)

while he was in the service of the boat, lightship or tender;

(b)

while he was at any place, except on land in the British Islands, in the course of—

(i)

proceeding to the boat, lightship or tender for the purpose of being in the service thereof; or

(ii)

returning from the boat, lightship or tender after being in the service thereof.