38. Where a person—
(a)is entitled to apply to their employer under the Reserve Forces (Safeguard of Employment) Act 1985(1); and
(b)enters the employment of that employer within the six month period mentioned in section 1(4)(b) (obligation to reinstate) of that Act;
that person’s previous period of employment with that employer (or if there was more than one such period, the last of those periods) and the period of employment beginning in that six month period shall be treated as continuous for the purposes of sections 171ZU and 171ZV of the 1992 Act (see also regulations 30 and 31).