Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00825:section:107c:p3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00825
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 107C (pt 3/3)
Character Range: 279382–281588

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 subsection (2) of section 147) 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 subsection (10), where at any time, the number of units of pension for which a prescribed employee is liable to contribute under subsection (3) exceeds the number of units of pension for which the employee would, apart from that subsection, be required to contribute under section 20, 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 subsection (9) of this section, section 20B applies, subject to subsection (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.
 (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 subsection (3).
 (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 were being paid by him to the State Fund in relation to an amount of a kind referred to in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of the definition of prescribed amount in subsection (1) of section 107A.