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amended by omitting sub-sections (1), (2) and (3) and substituting the following sub-sections:
"(1) A member or other person who is in receipt of a parliamentary allowance shall pay contributions to the Commonwealth—
     (a) in the case of a member or other person whose period of service is less than 18 years—at the rate per month of 11½ per centum of the monthly amount of his parliamentary allowance; or
     (b) in the case of a member or other person whose period of service is not less than 18 years—at the rate per month of 5¾ per centum of the monthly amount of his parliamentary allowance.
"(1a) An office holder shall, in addition to the contributions payable by him under sub-section (1), pay contributions to the Commonwealth at the rate per month of 11½ per centum of the monthly amount of his salary as an office holder.
"(2) For the purposes of sub-sections (1) and (1a)—
     (a) the monthly amount of a parliamentary allowance shall be deemed to be one-twelfth of the annual amount of that allowance; and
     (b) the monthly amount of the salary of an office holder shall be deemed to be one-twelfth of the annual amount of that salary.
"(3) The contributions payable by a person under this section shall be deducted—
     (a) in the case of the contributions referred to in sub-section (1)—from payments of parliamentary allowance made to the person; and
     (b) in the case of the contributions referred to in sub-section (1a)—from payments of parliamentary allowance or of salary as an office holder made to the person,
and each deduction shall, so far as practicable, be made in respect of the same period as that in respect of which the payment is made.".
7. After section 13 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted in Part IV:

Additional contributions by office holders
"14. (1) A reference in this section to a period during which a person served as an office holder does not include a reference to any period that does not also form part of the period of service of the person for the purposes of this Act.

"(2) Where a person who is a member at the date of commencement of this section served as an office holder for any period or periods before that date, he may, within 3 months after that date, by notice in writing signed by the person and delivered personally or sent by post to the Secretary to the Department of Finance, elect to have the whole of that period or of those periods taken into account for the purposes of sub-section (9) of section 18.

"(3) Where a person, not being a person who is