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waterside worker at the port of Sydney during that first-mentioned period.
"(10.) Where a person dies after he has ceased to be a registered waterside worker, he shall, for the purposes of this Part other than for the purpose of determining the period of his qualifying service, be deemed to have continued to be registered until his death, at the port at which he was last registered, unless, if he had not died, no subsequent registration of him could have been treated, for the purposes of this Part, as having been continuous with the registration that has ceased.
"(11.) Where—
       (a) the registration of a person as a waterside worker was, before the commencement of the Stevedoring Industry Act 1962, cancelled on his becoming an officer or other official of a Union; and
       (b) the person—
            (i) had not ceased to be an officer or official of the Union before the commencement of that Act; or
            (ii) had ceased to be an officer or official of the Union before the commencement of that Act and, on so ceasing, had again been registered as a waterside worker,

he shall, for the purposes of this Part, be deemed to have been registered as a waterside worker during the period commencing at the time when he became an officer or official of the Union and ending at the commencement of that Act or at the time when he ceased to be an officer or official of the Union, whichever first occurred.

Entitlement to long service leave.
"45d.—(1.) A registered waterside worker is entitled—
       (a) after the completion of a period of fifteen years' qualifying service—to long service leave in respect of that period of qualifying service; and
       (b) after the completion of each subsequent period of ten years' qualifying service—to additional long service leave in respect of each such subsequent period of qualifying service.
"(2.) Subject to the next succeeding section, where—
       (a) a person whose period of qualifying service is more than fifteen years ceases to be a registered waterside worker by reason of his registration being cancelled at his own request;
       (b) a person whose period of qualifying service is ten years or more ceases to be a registered waterside worker and the Authority, on the application of that person, certifies in writing that his ceasing to be so registered—
            (i) arose from such an illness, incapacity or disability as rendered him permanently incapable, or likely to be permanently incapable, of properly carrying out the duties of a waterside worker or as rendered him a danger to others;
            (ii) arose from a request to cancel his registration made by him on account of domestic or other pressing necessity of such a