3.—(1) Where immediately before the commencement date Part I of Schedule D5 to the 2000 Regulations (reduction of retirement pensions) applies to any person by virtue of one or more new employments with employing authorities which continue on that date–
(a)that Part of that Schedule shall cease to apply to him if after that date there is a period of more than one month during which he is not employed by any of those employing authorities; and
(b)if after such a period the member enters employment with any employing authority, regulations 112 and 113 of the 2002 Regulations (abatement) shall apply instead as respects that employment.
(2) Regulations 112 and 113 of the 2002 Regulations shall apply instead of Part I of Schedule D5 to the 2000 Regulations to a rejoining pensioner and a rejoining deferred member.