1.—(1) Where, but for the revocation of the 1974 regulations, regulation E3(4) of those regulations (preservation of certain rights under former regulations to increased retiring allowance) would have applied to a person on ceasing to hold a local government employment, the standard retirement grant is increased by the amount by which it would have been increased if that regulation had applied.
(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)—
(a)an additional period which a person has become entitled to count as a period of membership by virtue of, or of payments commenced under, regulation D10 of the 1974 regulations shall be treated as a period of membership ending immediately before the date on which he first became a contributory employee or, if earlier, a local Act contributor; and
(b)no account shall be taken of any period which a person has become entitled to count as a period of membership by virtue of regulation F6(1)(a) or (b) of the 1986 regulations (war service).
(3) In the case of a person to whom regulation E19 of the 1974 regulations applied but who made an election under paragraph (2) of that regulation, sub-paragraph (1) above applies as if—
(a)he had at no time been entitled as mentioned in paragraph (1)(b) of that regulation; and
(b)he had immediately before the time there mentioned been such a person as was mentioned in regulation 14(a) or (b) of the Benefits regulations.