88.—(1) A person (P) meets the new employment condition if—
(a)P leaves all eligible employment;
(b)within 6 months after leaving all eligible employment, P enters a new employment; and
(c)on the day after the entitlement day referred to in regulation 89 the reduced annual rate of P’s pensionable earnings in the new employment does not exceed 80% of the average annual rate of P’s pensionable earnings for the last 6 months of the previous employment.
(2) In this regulation—
“a new employment” means—
one or more new eligible employments;
one or more employments with an employer mentioned in any paragraph in Part 2 of Schedule 1 that is not an eligible employment where P’s normal duties in the employment include providing education or services ancillary to education (other than administrative services); or
one or more new eligible employments and one or more employments mentioned in paragraph (b); and
“previous employment” means one or more previous eligible employments.