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Defence Force of the Commonwealth, becomes employed by the Commonwealth or by an approved authority otherwise than as a casual, exempt or temporary employee; and
       (b) in respect of whom an amount is paid from the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund into the Fund under Division 3 of Part V. of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-1959.
       "(2.) This Part also applies to a person—
       (a) who, immediately after ceasing to be a member of the Defence Force of the Commonwealth, becomes employed by the Commonwealth or by an approved authority otherwise than in a permanent capacity and is, by the terms of his employment, required to give the whole of his time to the duties of his employment;
       (b) who, immediately before becoming so employed, had had not less than three years' continuous service as a member of the Defence Force of the Commonwealth;
       (c) in respect of whom—
             (i) in the case of a person employed by the Commonwealth otherwise than under the Australian Security Intelligence Organization Act 1956 or the High Commissioner Act 1909-1952—the Public Service Board, or, on appeal from the Public Service Board, the Treasurer;
             (ii) in the case of a person employed by an approved authority—that approved authority;
             (iii) in the case of a person employed under the Australian Security Intelligence Organization Act 1956—the Director-General of Security; or
             (iv) in the case of a person employed under the High Commissioner Act 1909-1952—the Minister administering that Act, on the recommendation of the High Commissioner of the Commonwealth in the United Kingdom,
       certifies that that person's employment is likely to be continued for a period of at least seven years; and

       (d) in respect of whom an amount is paid from the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund into the Fund under Division 3 of Part V. of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-1959.".

Contributions.
58. Section sixty ay of the Principal Act. is amended—
       (a) by omitting sub-section (3.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-section:—
       "(3.) Subject to the next succeeding section, a person to whom this Part applies shall contribute to the Fund for so many units of pension (including, where necessary, a fraction of a unit) as the Commonwealth Actuary certifies will entitle that person to benefits equivalent to those to which he would have been entitled if his contributions to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund had been contributions to the Superannuation Fund based on a retiring age of sixty years."; and
       (b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-section:—
       "(5.) In the application of sub-section (1.) of section thirty-one, and of sub-section (1.) of section thirty-two, of this Act to the pension of a widow of