7. Without prejudice to any other provision in these regulations, any period which immediately before the commencement date counted as a period of reckonable service for any purpose of the Scheme (including any period which counted by virtue of regulation E28 or E30 of the 1986 regulations)—
(a)shall continue to be counted for that purpose as a period of membership of the same length as it then counted for that purpose,
(b)if it counted as service in whole-time employment or part-time employment, shall count as membership in whole-time employment or, as the case may be, membership in part-time employment, and
(c)if it counted as service before or after a particular date, shall count as membership before or, as the case may be, after that date.