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RESIDENT MAGISTRATES' PENSIONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1960 - SECT 7

Meaning of ""period of childhood and full-time education''.

7.(1) A person shall, subject to sub-section (2), be deemed for the purposes
of section six to be in his period of childhood and full-time education while

(a)he is under the age of sixteen; or

(b)he is receiving full-time instruction at any university, college, school or
other educational establishment; or

(c)he is undergoing training by any person (in this Act referred to as "the
employer") for any trade, profession or vocation in such circumstances that

(i)he is required to devote the whole of his time to the training for a period
of not less than two years; and

(ii)while he is undergoing the training, the emoluments receivable by him, or
payable by the employer in respect of him, do not exceed [#104] a year,
exclusive of any emoluments receivable or payable by way of return of any
premium paid in respect of the training.

(2) A person shall not be deemed for the purposes of this section to satisfy
the conditions specified in paragraph (b) or paragraph (c) of sub-section (1)
unless there has not up till then been any time since he attained the age of
sixteen when he did not satisfy one or other of those conditions.

(3) Any period of whole-time service in the armed forces of the Crown under
the National Service Acts, 1948 to 1955, shall be ignored for the purposes of
sub-section (2).

(4) In sub-section (1) "emoluments" means any salary, fees, wages, perquisites
or profits or gains whatsoever, and includes the value of free board, lodging
or clothing, and, for the purposes of sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (c) of
that sub-section, where a premium has been paid in respect of the training of
a person, all emoluments at any time receivable by him, or payable by the
employer in respect of him, shall be deemed to be receivable or payable by way
of return of the premium, unless and except to the extent that the amount
thereof exceeds in the aggregate the amount of the premium.

(5) As respects any period during which neither of the conditions specified in
paragraphs (b) and (c) of sub-section (1) is satisfied in relation to a
person, the Ministry of Finance may, if it thinks fit, and is satisfied that a
person's full-time education ought not to be regarded as completed, direct

(a)that that period shall be ignored for the purposes of sub-section (2); or

(b)that that period shall be so ignored and shall also be treated as part of
his period of childhood and full-time education for all the other purposes of
section six.

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