Amendment of regulation 72 of the principal Regulations

27.  At the end of regulation 72(1) of the principal Regulations (prior service to be treated as practitioner service) there is added the following proviso–

“Provided that the amount of any benefits payable under these regulations shall be calculated as if this paragraph did not apply where–

(a) the value of the practitioner service is less than the value of the service otherwise than as a practitioner (there being left out of account in either case any added years or any period added under Regulations 34 and 75), and

(b) treatment of the prior service as practitioner service would operate so as to reduce the amount of the benefits payable.”.