PART VSPECIFIED COUNTRY SERVICE
30. Regulations E4 (entitlement to payment of retirement benefits), E6 (amount of retirement lump sum), E13(3) (pension becoming payable again after cessation on pensioner ceasing to be incapacitated), E15 (retirement benefits on cessation of further employment) and E16 (short-service annuity) have effect with the substitution for references (whether direct or not) to the age of 60 of references to the age obtained by deducting from 60 years a period of 3 months in respect of each complete year of up to 20 years of specified country service.
31. Subject to paragraph 32—
(a)for the purpose of calculating retirement benefits, and grants under regulations E17, E20 and E21, and
(b)for the purposes of regulation E32(2) (restriction of effective reckonable service to 45 years, etc.),
specified country service counts as reckonable service at 1.5 times its actual length.
32. For the purposes of regulation E8 (enhancement of retirement benefits in case of incapacity), in calculating relevant service specified country service counts as reckonable service at its actual length.