Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2022C00261:schedule:1:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2022C00261
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 1 (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 171136–173949

Schedule 1
(Definition of "eligible service")
1. The eligible service of a member is the sum of:
     (a) subject to paragraph 2, service by the person as a member; and
     (b) in the case of a person entitled to an invalidity pension who is classified as Class A—a period equal to the period commencing on the day immediately following the last day of the person's service and concluding on the day on which the person would have retired if he or she had not been retired on the ground of invalidity but had served until attaining:
          (i) the age that was the age for the compulsory retirement of the member immediately before his or her retirement; or
          (ii) the age of 55 years;
      whichever is the greater; and
     (c) in the case of a transferred person—a period specified in the following table in relation to that person:

Person                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Period included
  1. A person who, immediately before he or she transferred from the 1973 Scheme, was rendering continuous full‑time service and who, before he or she began to render that service, was not a 1973 Scheme retirement pensioner.          Any period that, before the transfer of the person, was a period of effective service in relation to the person for the purposes of the 1973 Act.
  2. A person who, immediately before he or she transferred from the 1973 Scheme, was rendering continuous full‑time service and who, immediately before he or she began to render that service, was a 1973 Scheme retirement pensioner.  So much of that period of service rendered by the person after the person ceased to be a 1973 Scheme retirement pensioner and before his or her transfer to the 1991 Scheme as was a period of effective service in relation to the person for the purposes of the 1973 Act.

2. Service referred to in subparagraph 1 (a) does not include service during a period:
     (a) prescribed in Schedule 2 in respect of which, under subrule 4 (4), salary is taken not to be paid to the member; or
     (b) that was a period of leave of absence without pay granted to the member in respect of which the Department did not pay contributions to the Fund in relation to the member; or
     (c) (except in the case of a person entitled to an invalidity benefit) that occurred after the member's total benefit reached his or her lump sum maximum benefit limit and in respect of which the member, in pursuance of rule 5, did not pay contributions to the Fund; or
     (d) (except in the case of a person entitled to an invalidity benefit) that occurred after the member's total benefit reached his or her pension maximum