Rush - get the application in now!
The same applies to the civil IR. It seems the new ruling on both go hand in hand. But I think it will be safe to say that there will be no retrospective rulings on previous cases which fell outside the rules at the time.
Most of the good work was done by "Fartmaster" who led the campaign against the CAA's interpretation on 625 regarding the 7 year rule. The CAA states that the re-interpretation was a "De-rogation" but in reality, they have just started to follow other European agencies by including non JAA ratings, including military. We warned the CAA that they ran the risk of losing up to UK 1500 licenced pilots off their books, but they didn't think it would happen. But when UK pilots started having their EASA ATPLs issued in Ireland and France this year, they realised it would happen. I suspect it was this which prompted the ruling.