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pension that would have been payable under section 18 of the Principal Act to that person if those amendments had not been made.

16. After section 18 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:—

Certain members who retire by reason of ill-health deemed to have had eight years' service.
"18a. (1) This section applies to—
(a) a person—
        (i) who ceases to be a member by reason of his having resigned his place before the expiration of his term of office;
        (ii) whose period of service is less than eight years; and
        (iii) who satisfies the Trust that his resignation was made bona fide on account of ill-health;
(b) a person—
        (i) who ceases to be a senator upon the expiration of the term of office of a class of senators or the dissolution of the Senate;
        (ii) whose period of service is less than eight years;
        (iii) who is not, at the time of an election to fill places in the Senate that become vacant at the time when his place becomes vacant, a candidate for election as a senator or, if elections of members of the House of Representatives are held, or an election of a member of the House of Representatives is held, at the same time as such a Senate election, a candidate for election either as a senator or as a member of the House of Representatives; and
(iv) who satisfies the Trust that his failure to be such a candidate was due to ill-health;
(c) a person—
        (i) who ceases to be a member of the House of Representatives upon the dissolution or expiration of that House;
        (ii) whose period of service is less than eight years;
        (iii) who is not, at the time of the next ensuing elections for the House of Representatives, a candidate for election to that House or, if elections of senators are held, or an election of a senator is held, at the same time as those elections for that House, a candidate for election either as a senator or as a member of the House of Representatives; and
(iv) who satisfies the Trust that his failure to be such a candidate was due to ill-health; and
(d) a person—
        (i) who ceases to be a senator by reason of the election of a successor under section 15 of the Constitution;
        (ii) whose period of service is less than eight years;
        (iii) who is not, at the time of the election at which his successor is elected, a candidate for election as a senator or, if his successor is elected at a general election of members of the

        House of Representatives, a candidate for election either as