If control is in the lexical scope of an ATC-deferred section when an AIE is raised by fire() on an AIE object or interrupt() on the current real-time thread object, the AIE is made pending. The exception does not initiate the transfer of control corresponding to the AIE until the first subsequent attempt to transfer control to code that is not ATC-deferred. At that point control is transferred to the nearest dynamically-enclosing catch clause of a try statement that handles this AIE and which is in an ATC-deferred section. See section 11.3 of The Java Language Specification second edition for an explanation of the terms, dynamically enclosing and handles. The RTSJ uses those definitions unaltered.