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a sessional employee in respect of a special or emergency session of Parliament where, during such session, the employee does not or did not perform any services for Parliament. (7) A special or emergency session of Parliament shall be deemed, for the purposes of subsection (5), to be or to have been a period between sessions of Parliament where a sessional employee does not or did not perform any services for Parliament during such Session. (8) For the purposes of Part I of the Act, the effective date upon which a prevailing rate employee employed on a seasonal basis, or a seasonal employee to whom the Act applies, ceases to be employed in the public service shall be deemed to be the first day they are required to return to duty following the season in which they were actively employed unless (a) within a period of 10 days from the first day they return to duty, or (b) before such first day, the deputy head of their department advises the Minister in writing that the employee has ceased to be employed on some other day before such first day, except that if the employee is actively employed in the public service the effective date of ceasing to be employed in that position shall be determined by subsection (2). (9) No person who is a prevailing rate employee employed on a seasonal basis or who is a seasonal employee, unless they are actively employed in the public service, shall count as pensionable service any period between seasons applicable to their employment and no such person, unless they are actively employed in the public service, shall contribute to the Superannuation Account in respect of any such period. (10) Subject to subsections (11) and (12), a contributor shall, for the purposes of Part I of the Act, be deemed to have ceased to be employed in the public service where the contributor (a) ceases to be employed in any branch of the public service; (b) becomes employed immediately thereafter in another branch of the public service; (c) becomes a contributor under a pension plan for employees of that branch; and (d) ceases to contribute to the Public Service Pension Fund under section 5 of the Act. (11) Every contributor to whom subsection (10) would have applied had that contributor not, prior to November 1, 1960, (a) ceased to be employed in a branch of the public service, and (b) become employed in another branch of the public service, is, for the purposes of Part I of the Act, deemed to have ceased to be employed in the public service on November 1, 1960. (12) A contributor who elects, or has elected, to become a contributor pursuant to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Superannuation Act shall be deemed, for the purposes of Part I of the Act, to have ceased to be employed in the public service on the day preceding the day in respect of which they begin to contribute pursuant to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Superannuation Act . (13) Except as provided in subsection (10), a contributor shall not, for the purposes of Part I of the Act, be deemed to have ceased to be employed in the public service where they ceased to be employed in any portion of the public service and became employed in some other portion of the public service if only (a) a day of rest, (b) a day declared a general holiday by competent authority, or (c) both a day of rest and a day declared a general holiday by competent authority intervened between the last work day for which they received pay in the first mentioned portion of the public service and the first working day in respect of which they received pay in the next mentioned portion of the public service. (14) [Repealed, SOR/2016-203, s. 17] (15) For the purposes of Part I of the Act, a person (a) who was employed in the Engineering Services Branch of the Department of Regional Economic Expansion at Amherst, Nova Scotia, at the time the functions of that Branch were taken over by the Council of Maritime Premiers, and (b) whose pensionable service was not transferred under an agreement