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(if any).".
(2) Section 62 of the Principal Act is amended—
     (a) by inserting in sub-section (1) ", or is about to cease," after "ceases";
     (b) by inserting in sub-section (1) "or will, upon so ceasing, be deemed," after "deemed,"; and
     (c) by omitting from sub-section (1) "his last day of service" and substituting ", and not earlier than 3 months before, the day on which he or she so ceases to be an eligible employee".

Entitlement to invalidity benefit
24. (1) Section 66 of the Principal Act is amended—
     (a) by omitting from paragraph (1) (c) "sub-section 69 (2) and, where the person has paid supplementary contributions, an additional lump sum benefit in accordance with sub-section 69 (3)" and substituting "that section";
     (b) by omitting from sub-paragraph (2) (d) (iii) "sub-section 72 (2), and, where the person has paid supplementary contributions, an additional lump sum benefit in accordance with sub-section 72 (3)" and substituting "that section"; and
     (c) by omitting from paragraph (2) (e) "sub-section 73 (2) and, where the person has paid supplementary contributions, an additional lump sum benefit in accordance with sub-section 73 (3)" and substituting "section 73".
(2) Section 66 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after sub-section (2) the following sub-sections:
     "(2a) Where the Commissioner is of the opinion that—

     (a) a person will, in the near future, cease to be an eligible employee by reason of retirement on the ground of invalidity before attaining the person's maximum retiring age;
     (b) there will be in force in respect of the person, immediately before the person's retirement, a benefit classification certificate; and
     (c) the incapacity which will be the ground for the person's retirement was caused, or was substantially contributed to, by a physical or mental condition or conditions specified in the certificate or by a physical or mental condition or conditions connected with such a condition or such conditions;
then—
     (d) the Commissioner shall inform the person in writing that the Commissioner has formed the opinions referred to in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c); and
     (e) where the person becomes a person referred to in paragraph (2) (a) and to whom paragraph (2) (b) applies, the Commissioner shall be taken to have formed the opinion referred to in paragraph (2) (c) in relation to that person immediately on the person becoming a person referred to in paragraph (2) (a) unless, whether before or after the person became a person so referred to, the Commissioner informed the person in writing that this sub-section is not to apply to the person.
"(2b) Where the Commissioner forms the opinion referred to in paragraph (2) (c) in relation to a person on a date after the date