Regulation 19(2)
SCHEDULE 2Members of Her Majesty’s forces: excluded persons
1. The following persons are not members of Her Majesty’s forces for the purposes of these Regulations—
(a)subject to paragraph 2, any person who is serving as a member of any naval force of Her Majesty’s forces and who locally entered that force at a naval base outside the United Kingdom;
(b)any person who is serving as a member of any military force of Her Majesty’s forces and who entered that force, or was recruited for that force, outside the United Kingdom, and the depot of whose unit is situated outside the United Kingdom;
(c)any person who is serving as a member of any air force of Her Majesty’s forces and who entered that force, or was recruited for that force, outside the United Kingdom, and is liable under the terms of engagement to serve only in a specified part of the world outside the United Kingdom.
2. Paragraph 1(a) does not include any person who—
(a)has previously been an insured person under Part 1 of the National Insurance Act (Northern Ireland) 1966(1); or
(b)is paying or has previously paid one or more of the following classes of contributions under the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Act 1975(2) or the Contributions and Benefits Act(3)—
(i)primary Class 1,
(ii)Class 2, or
(iii)Class 3.
1966 c. 6 (N.I.); Part 1 was repealed with savings by Part I of Schedule 1 and paragraph 7 of Schedule 3 to the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1975 (c. 18)
1975 c. 15; section 1(2) lists the Classes of contributions. Most of this Act was repealed by Schedule 1 to the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 9)
Section 1(2) lists the Classes of contributions and was amended by paragraph 38(1) of Schedule 6 to the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/1506 (N.I. 10)) paragraph 191 of Schedule 6 to the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 (c. 1), paragraph 16(2)(b) of Schedule 15 to the Pensions Act 2014 (c. 19) and section 136(3) of the Pensions Act 2008 (c. 30)