2. For regulation 3 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1949 (Compensation) Regulations 1978 there shall be substituted the following—

“3. (1) These Regulations shall apply to any person who—
(a) held the office of justices' clerk on 2nd February 1995 and continues to hold such office immediately before the material date; or
(b) was employed in assisting the holder of the office of justices' clerk in the performance of the duties of that office on 2nd February 1995 and either—
(i) remains so employed, or
(ii) left that employment to hold office as a justices' clerk and continues to hold such office,
immediately before the material date.
(2) Paragraph (1) shall apply notwithstanding that the determining authority is not the magistrates' courts committee which had appointed the person to the office of justices' clerk held on 2nd February 1995 or, as the case may be, by which the person was employed on 2nd February 1995.”

S.I. 1978/1682.