Re-employed and rejoining deferred members
10. In regulation 34 –
(a)after paragraph (1), there shall be inserted –
“(1A) A member cannot elect to aggregate any period of former membership which he could have elected to aggregate with another period of former membership but did not before the expiry of the period in paragraph (7A).”;
(b)in paragraph (5), for sub-paragraph (b) there shall be substituted –
“(b)for the purpose only of calculating –
(i)whether the member has the necessary total membership referred to in regulation 18(1)(a) to be entitled to benefits under this Chapter and regulation 30(1) to be entitled to calculate his ill-health pension and grant by reference to the enhanced membership period; and
(ii)total membership in regulation 54 (power of employing authority to increase total membership),
the unaggregated periods of membership shall be taken into account, and”; and
(c)after paragraph (7), there shall be inserted –
“(7A) The notice under paragraph (7) must be given before the expiry of the period of 12 months beginning with the date that he became an active member again (or such longer period as the Committee may allow).”.