Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph 2:

"2A.

(a) Employment, between 1 January 2007 and 31 December 2011, under a contract referred to in paragraph 1 by -

(i) a national of the Republic of Bulgaria or Romania, or

(ii) a permitted family member or qualifying family member of a national of the Republic of Bulgaria or Romania,

whether or not such employment was in accordance with an employment permit referred to in section 2(1) of the Employment Permits Act 2003.

(b) In this paragraph -

'permitted family member' has the same meaning as it has in the Regulations of 2015 and includes a person deemed to be a permitted family member under Regulation 31(2) of those Regulations;

'qualifying family member' has the same meaning as it has in the Regulations of 2015 and includes a person considered to be a qualifying family member under Regulation 31(1) of those Regulations;

'Regulations of 2015' means the European Communities (Free Movement of Persons) Regulations 2015 (S.I. No. 548 of 2015).".