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duties of the office within a reasonable time after the appointment takes effect, the Board may cancel the appointment.
"(5) In this section, unless the contrary intention appears—
     'Board', 'Department', 'office', 'Secretary' and 'Service' have the same respective meanings as they have in the Public Service Act;
     'Joint Selection Committee', 'prescribed day', 'promotion' and 'vacancy' have the same respective meanings as they have in Division 4 of Part III of the Public Service Act;
     'relevant staff member' means an officer or employee of the Trust appointed or engaged under section 44a who—
         (a) is not an officer, within the meaning of the Public Service Act, to whom Division 2 of Part IV of the Public Service Act applies; and
         (b) is not a person to whom Division 3 of Part IV of that Act applies.".

25. After section 126 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted in Division 1 of Part IX:

Modification of Act in relation to former eligible employees who become members of a superannuation scheme
"126a. (1) This section applies to a person who has ceased or is to cease to be an eligible employee, being a person who, immediately after the person so ceased or will so cease to be an eligible employee, became or will become a member of a superannuation scheme (in this section referred to as 'the relevant superannuation scheme' in relation to the person) other than the superannuation scheme constituted by this Act.
"(2) The regulations may make provision for modifying this Act, or a specified provision of this Act, in the application of this Act or that provision to or in respect of a person to whom this section applies, or to or in respect of persons included in a specified class of persons to whom this section applies.
"(3) The modifications that may be made by regulations pursuant to sub-section (2) in relation to the application of the Act or a provision of the Act to or in respect of a person, or persons included in a class of persons, include, but are not limited to, modifications providing for—
     (a) benefits to or in respect of that person or each of those persons in substitution for benefits under this Act to or in respect of that person or each of those persons, whether or not superannuation benefits are also provided to or in respect of that person or each of those persons under the superannuation scheme that is the relevant superannuation scheme in relation to that person or each of those persons;

     (b) where superannuation benefits are provided to or in respect of that person or each of those persons under the superannuation scheme that is the relevant