Employment not treated as continuing during interruption U.K.
3. A person's employer may, after the end of that person's period of service in a non-participating employment and not later than the end of the assurance period, give the Minster notice in writing that he wishes the employment not to be treated, for the purpose of the provisions of Part II of the Act of 1959 relating to the making of a payment in lieu of contributions at the end of such a period of service, as having continued during such number of contribution weeks as may be specified in the notice, being contribution weeks during which it would, apart from this regulation, fall, under paragraph (3) of regulation 2, to be treated for that purpose as having continued, and, if such a notice is given, the employment shall not be so treated as having continued during those weeks:
Provided that—
(a)no such notice shall include any contribution weeks in a contribution year where the number of contribution weeks in that year during which the employment would so fall to be treated as having continued is three or less; and
(b)where that number of contribution weeks exceeds three, at least three of those weeks shall be excluded from the notice.