Conditions for payment of long-term compensation
11.—(1) Without prejudice to any other requirement of these regulations, the conditions for the payment of long-term compensation to any person are that—
(a)he has, not later than 10 years after the material date, suffered loss of employment or loss or diminution of emoluments attributable to section 1 of the Vehicle and Driving Licences Act 1969;
(b)he shall not, save as is provided in regulation 26, at the date of the loss or diminution have attained normal retiring age;
(c)he shall have been for a period beginning not less than 5 years immediately before the material date continuously engaged (without a break of more than 12 months at any one time) for the whole or part of his time in relevant employment;
(d)he shall have made a claim for such compensation in accordance with the provisions of Part VII of these regulations not later than 2 years after the loss or diminution which is the cause of the claim or 2 years after the coming into operation of these regulations whichever is the later; and
(e)if the cause of the claim for compensation is loss of employment—
(i)the loss shall have occurred for some reason other than misconduct or incapacity to perform the duties that, immediately before the loss, he was performing or might reasonably have been required to perform; and
(ii)he shall not, subject to paragraph (2), after the employer either informed him in writing that his employment was to be terminated or was likely to be terminated or gave him written notice of termination of his employment, have been offered in writing any relevant employment which is reasonably comparable with the employment which he has lost.
(2) Regulation 7(2) and (3) (which relate to offers of employment) shall apply for the purposes of this regulation in ascertaining whether a person has been offered reasonably comparable employment.
(3) Claims for long-term compensation for loss of employment shall in all respects be treated as claims for such compensation for the loss of emoluments occasioned thereby and the provisions of these regulations shall apply to all such claims accordingly.