4.—(1) If a person has specified country service, these Regulations have effect subject to the modifications made by this paragraph.
(2) The provisions mentioned in sub-paragraph (4) have effect as if references to the age of 60 and references to a normal pension age of 60 were replaced by references to the age obtained by deducting from 60 years a period of 3 months in respect of each complete year of up to 20 years of the person’s specified country service and by references to a normal pension age of that age respectively.
(3) Sub-paragraph (2) does not apply in relation to the calculation of benefits in respect of further employment.
(4) The provisions are—
(a)regulation 48 (“person with mixed service”: meaning and normal pension age);
(b)regulation 49 (“pre-2007 entrant”: meaning and normal pension age);
(c)regulation 50 (meaning of “NPA 60 reckonable service” and “NPA 65 reckonable service”);
(d)regulation 68 (cessation and reinstatement of ill-health pension (application received before 6th January 2007));
(e)regulation 69 (cessation of ill-health pension (application received on or after 6th January 2007));
(f)regulation 78 (short-service annuity);
(g)regulation 79 (short-service annuity: unauthorised payments)
(5) For the purpose of calculating the person’s reckonable service except for the purpose of—
(a)benefits in respect of any period of further employment, and
(b)benefits under Part 9 (family benefits)
specified country service counts as 1.5 times its actual length.