6.—(1) If a person's employment entitles that person to belong to another public service pension scheme, or would so entitle that person were it not for the person's age, that employment does not entitle that person to be a member, unless that other scheme was made under Article 9 of the 1972 Order.
(2) An employee of an employing authority may not be a member of the Scheme if that employee is a member of another occupational pension scheme in relation to that employment.
(3) A person shall not become a member of the Scheme after the day before that person's 75th birthday.
(4) Retained or volunteer membership with a fire and rescue authority (within the meaning given to that term by Article 3 of the Fire and Rescue Services (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 M1) on terms under which the retained or voluntary member is or may be required to engage in fire-fighting does not entitle the retained or voluntary member to be a member of the Scheme.
(5) Any person who, as a member of staff of the University of Ulster, is eligible to participate in the Universities' Superannuation Scheme is not entitled to be a member of the Scheme.
(6) Paragraph (1) does not apply to a member on reserve forces service leave who is entitled to be a member of the Armed Forces Pension Scheme, if that member makes an election to that member's employing authority to remain a member of the Scheme.
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