3(1)This paragraph applies to any person who for the time being holds, or who is seeking re-appointment to, a fee-paid relevant office, if—U.K.
(a)immediately before the appointed day, he was holding that office as a fee-paid office;
(b)he has at all times on and after that day held that office as a fee-paid office; and
(c)his potential retirement date by reference to that office falls later than the date that would, apart from this paragraph, be the compulsory retirement date for that office in his case.
(2)If and so long as this paragraph applies to a person—
(a)nothing in section 26 of, and no amendment made by Schedule 6 to, this Act shall—
(i)require him to vacate the office referred to in sub-paragraph (1) above before his potential retirement date by reference to that office; or
(ii)affect his eligibility for re-appointment to that office as a fee-paid office; and
(b)that potential retirement date shall be taken for the purposes of section 26 of this Act (and, accordingly, of this Schedule) to be the compulsory retirement date for that office in his case.