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lump sum, those regulations may provide for the payment of different benefits by way of a lump sum to or in respect of different classes of officers and, for the purposes of this sub-section, a class of officers may be constituted by all or any of the officers referred to in either or both of the paragraphs of sub-section (1).
"(3) The regulations—
     (a) may make provision for the purpose of—
          (i) enabling a person who is entitled to the payment of a lump sum under regulations made for the purposes of sub-section (1) and who is or becomes, in such circumstances as the regulations prescribe, entitled to pension benefits under the superannuation rules in consequence of his retirement to elect that, in lieu of that sum, there be paid to him benefits, calculated in such manner as is provided for in the regulations, being pension benefits similar to pension benefits payable under the superannuation rules; and
          (ii) enabling the payment of such a pension benefit to the person entitled to it in association with any pension benefit payable to the person under the superannuation rules as if it were a pension benefit so payable;
     (b) may provide for such an election to become void if the person who made the election subsequently ceases, in such circumstances as the regulations prescribe, to be entitled to pension benefits under the superannuation rules;
     (c) may apply the superannuation rules, subject to such modifications and adaptations as are prescribed by the regulations, to and in relation to such a benefit; and
     (d) may make such other provision, not inconsistent with this Act, as is necessary to be made for carrying out or giving effect to the purpose specified in paragraph (a).
"(4) In sub-section (3), 'modification' includes the addition or omission of a provision or the substitution of a provision for another provision.".

Formal and consequential amendments
15. The Principal Act is amended as set out in the Schedule.

Transitional provision with respect to Tenure and Disciplinary Appeal Board
16. (1) Anything done before the commencing date by the Disciplinary Appeal Board in relation to the hearing and determining of an appeal under

section 108 of the Principal Act has effect on and after that date as if it had been done by the Tenure and Disciplinary Appeal Board.
(2) Notwithstanding the amendment made by paragraph 13 (b), the person who, immediately before the commencing date, held office as the Chairman of the Disciplinary Appeal Board continues to hold office, on and after that date, during the pleasure of the Governor-General, as if his appointment to that office were an appointment as the Chairman of the Tenure and Disciplinary Appeal Board.
(3) The