Concurrent employmentsS
Concurrent employmentsS
2.B.4.—(1) This regulation applies if for any period a person holds two or more employments in respect of which the person is (or apart from this regulation would be) eligible to be an active member of this Section of the scheme.
(2) The person may only be such a member in respect of so many hours or, as the case may be, sessions in each such employment as, in the opinion of the Scottish Ministers, do not, taken together, exceed a comparable whole-time employment not held concurrently with any other employment.
(3) If the person is such a member in respect of two or more employments which, in the opinion of the Scottish Ministers, when taken together exceed a comparable whole-time employment not held concurrently with any other employment, the person is not eligible to be an active member in respect of any employment (or part of an employment) which exceeds a comparable whole-time employment not held concurrently with any other employment.
(4) For the purposes of paragraphs (2) and (3), two or more employments taken together exceed a comparable whole-time employment if the total number of hours or sessions under the employments exceeds the number of hours or sessions that would, in the opinion of the Scottish Ministers, constitute a comparable whole-time employment under which services of the kinds performed in the two or more employments were performed.
(5) For the purposes of this regulation, an employment is “whole-time” if it is employment for such number of hours or sessions as, in the opinion of the Scottish Ministers, amounts to whole-time employment in the case of an employment for services of the kind performed in the two or more employments.
(6) A person may participate in this Section of the scheme in respect of employment as an officer even if the person also participates in this Section of the scheme under Part 3 in respect of concurrent employment as a practitioner.