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February 1976, elect to contribute to the Fund for so many additional units of pension (including, where necessary, a fraction of a unit) as the Board determines to be the number of units that will entitle him to benefits equivalent to that excess.

"(7) An election under paragraph (b) of sub-section (6) of this section does not have effect in relation to a prescribed employee unless, not later than 6 months after the date on which the election is made, he satisfies the Board that he is not suffering from any physical or mental defect (not being a defect that, in the opinion of the Board, is the result of the service of the employee as a member of the Forces as defined in sub-section (2) of section 147 of this Act) likely to render him incapable of performing his duties before attaining the maximum age for retirement.

"(8) A prescribed employee shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be a contributor—

    (a) in the case of an employee who contributed to the State Fund for pension on retirement at the age of 60 years or of a female employee who contributed to the State Fund for pension on retirement at the age of 55 years—at rates based on a retiring age of 60 years; or
(b) in any other case—at rates based on a retiring age of 65 years.

"(9) Subject to sub-section (10) of this section, where at any time, the number of units of pension for which a prescribed employee is liable to contribute under sub-section (3) of this section exceeds the number of units of pension for which the employee would, apart from that sub-section, be required to contribute under section 20 of this Act, the employee is not entitled to contribute for any units, other than reserve units, in excess of the first-mentioned number of units.

"(10) Notwithstanding sub-section (9) of this section, section 20B of this Act applies, subject to sub-section (11) of this section, to and in relation to a prescribed employee in respect of a reduction of his salary or of the prescribed amount referred to in section 20 of this Act.

"(11) Nothing in this Act shall be taken to require or permit a reduction in the number of units of pension for which a prescribed employee is a contributor to a number that is less than the number of units of pension for which he is liable to contribute under sub-section (3) of this section.

"(12) For the purposes of this section, a reference to the rate at which a prescribed employee was contributing to the State Fund does not include the rate of any contributions that