PART 3BENEFITS FOR PRACTITIONERS ETC.
CHAPTER 2MEMBERSHIP
Joining and leaving the Scheme
Membership: locum practitioners159.
(1)
Regulation 156 does not apply to a locum practitioner.
(2)
A locum practitioner may apply to join the Scheme by sending an application to the employing authority and submitting such evidence relating to his service as a locum practitioner and the contributions payable in respect of it as are required by that employing authority.
(3)
On receiving such an application, such evidence and such contributions, the employing authority must submit the application to the Department.
(4)
No application may be made under paragraph (2) in respect of a period of engagement as a locum practitioner ending earlier than ten weeks before the date of the application.