2.—(1) A person may present a complaint to an industrial tribunal under section 6A of the Equal Pay Act (Northern Ireland) 1970, notwithstanding that subsection (5) of that section would otherwise preclude the presentation of such a complaint, in any case to which paragraph (2) or (4) applies.
(2) This paragraph applies where—
(a)the person has made a complaint in respect of the same matter to an officer under the service redress procedures; and
(b)that complaint has not been withdrawn.
(3) For the purposes of paragraph 2(b), a person shall be treated as having withdrawn his complaint if, having made a complaint to an officer under the service redress procedures, he fails to submit that complaint to the Defence Council under those procedures.
(4) This paragraph applies where the complaint concerns a claim in respect of the contravention of a term of service relating to membership of, or rights under, any relevant scheme.
(5) In this regulation—
“occupational pension scheme” has the same meaning as in section 1 of the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993(1); and
“relevant scheme” means—