4.—(1) This Article shall apply to a protected person, irrespective of any change in his duties, so long as he continues to be employed in connection with a relevant function by the local authority by whom he was employed on the relevant date without a break of twelve months or more in that employment.
(2) Section 6(5) of the Local Government Superannuation Act 1937 (which relates to the payment of superannuation contributions on the reduction of remuneration) shall apply to a protected person to whom this Article applies who on or after the relevant date suffers a reduction in his emoluments attributable to the provisions of section 2 or 6 of the Act, as the case may be.
(3) Where under section 6(5) of the said Act of 1937 as applied by the preceding paragraph a protected person pays contributions to a superannuation fund as if his remuneration had not been reduced, he shall be deemed for the purposes of Regulation 3(1) of the Local Government Superannuation (Benefits) Regulations 1954(1) or proviso (b) to section 8(5) of the said Act of 1937 to have received the remuneration which he would have received but for the reduction.
(4) In calculating for the purposes of this Article whether, or the amount by which, a protected person's remuneration has been reduced, no account shall be taken of any increase in his remuneration which is attributable to any temporary allowance granted in consequence of the provisions of section 2 or 6 of the Act, as the case may be, and otherwise than in the ordinary course of his employment.
(1954 II, p. 1595).