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PART 2Transitional provisions

CHAPTER 7Retirement benefits

Premature retirement : special classes

33.—(1) This regulation applies where a 1995 officer transition member to whom regulation R2 or R3 of the 2011 Regulations applies in respect of service in that Section—

(a)becomes entitled to payment of a premature retirement pension—

(i)pursuant to regulation 80 of the 2015 Regulations; or

(ii)on grounds of redundancy pursuant to regulation 81 of the 2015 Regulations; and

(b)claims that pension.

(2) Where this regulation applies, for the purposes of regulation E9(2) and (3) of the 2011 Regulations—

(a)the member is to be treated as having claimed payment of a pension under regulation E1 of those Regulations; and

(b)in the case of a member to who regulation R2(4)(b) of the 2011 Regulations applies, the member is also entitled to a pension under regulation E11 of the 2011 Regulations if that member makes a claim for it.