Locum practitioners: breaks between contracts
12.—(1) Paragraph (5) of regulation C3 does not apply to a locum practitioner and instead sub-paragraph (2) below applies where a locum practitioner ceases to be engaged as such a practitioner and is re-engaged as such a practitioner before the expiry of a period not exceeding three months from the day on which the practitioner so ceases.
(2) For the purposes of these Regulations—
(a)a locum practitioner is treated as continuing to be in qualifying service during the period not exceeding three months whilst the locum practitioner is not so engaged and as not being required to rejoin this Section of the scheme at the time when the locum practitioner becomes re-engaged in pensionable service, but
(b)that period does not count as practitioner service or as a period in pensionable employment.