Saving3.
Where child benefit was payable, in any week in the twelve weeks immediately preceding 1st March 1999 in the case of a child, by virtue of regulation 2(2)(c)(ii) of the principal Regulations as then in operation, and that child either–
(a)
remains continuously absent from Northern Ireland; or
(b)
returns to Northern Ireland for any period not exceeding twelve weeks,
that regulation as originally in operation shall continue to have effect in his case, as if regulation 2 has not been made, up to and including either 6th September 1999 or the Monday of the one hundred and fifty-sixth week following the date the child first started being educated abroad, whichever is the later.