PART IIProtected Persons
Circumstances in which voluntary withdrawals are disregarded10
For the purposes of articles 3 to 8 and for all other purposes of paragraph 6 of Schedule 11, any voluntary withdrawal from an occupational pension scheme by a protected person shall be disregarded where the protected person in question has ceased to participate in an occupational pension scheme by reason of—
a
a break in his continuity of employment which is disregarded under article 9 provided that he begins to participate in an existing scheme or a new scheme as soon as it is reasonably practicable after he becomes eligible so to do; or
b
a transfer from one occupational pension scheme to another occupational scheme where, at the time of the transfer, he is eligible to participate in either of those schemes by virtue of his employment or, where a new employer has taken over the business in which that person was employed, by virtue of his employment with his former or new employer.