In this Part of the regulations unless the context otherwise requires:
"affiliated employer" means another employer where one of the employers is a subsidiary (within the meaning of Section 155 of the Companies Act, 1963 (No. 33 of 1963)) of the other, or where both employers are subsidiaries of a third employer;
"centralised scheme" means an occupational pension scheme with more than one participating employer, whether or not such an employer is an affiliated employer;
"confinement" has the meaning assigned to it by section 41 of the Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 1993;
"temporary absence" means a period of absence by a member spouse from relevant employment: (1) on account of the pregnancy or confinement of the member spouse, or (2) in furtherance of a trade dispute as defined in section 8 of the Industrial Relations Act, 1990 (No. 19 of 1990), or (3) where under the rules of the pension scheme a member spouse is treated as not having ceased relevant employment for the
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