25For regulation 3 of the [1975 No. 136.] Clergy Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 1975 there shall be substituted the following regulation—
“3For the removal of doubt it is hereby declared that a scheme member who—
(a)before attaining the retiring age ceases to perform pensionable service, and
(b)on the date on which he attains that age is neither performing such service nor in receipt of a pension under the Church of England (Pensions) Measures 1961 to 1988,
is to be deemed for the purposes of those Measures, any rules made thereunder and these regulations to have retired on that date”.