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Legislative Assembly to be taken into account in certain circumstances
10. (1) Section 20a of the Principal Act is amended—
     (a) by omitting from sub-section (1) "The" and substituting "Subject to sub-section (1b), the"; and
     (b) by inserting after sub-section (1) the following sub-sections:
     "(1a) References in sub-section (1) to the Parliament of a State shall be construed as including references to the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory.
     "(1b) The period of service of a member shall not be deemed to include any period after 19 October 1974 and before 23 September 1979 during which the member was a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory unless the member elected under section 26 of the Legislative Assembly Members' Superannuation Act 1979 of the Northern Territory to have his period of service as a member of that Legislative Assembly during that period treated as membership for the purposes of that Act.".

(2) Section 20a of the Principal Act is repealed.

Reduction of benefits by reason of membership of State Parliament or Northern Territory Legislative Assembly
11. (1) Section 21 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after sub-section (1) the following sub-section:
"(1a) References in sub-section (1) to the Parliament of a State and to a Minister of State of a State shall be construed as including references to the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory and to a Minister of the Northern Territory, respectively.".

(2) Section 21 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting sub-sections (1), (1a) and (2).

12. After section 21 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:

Regulations may modify and adapt Act in its application to certain persons
"21a. The regulations may provide for the modification and adaptation of the provisions of this Act in their application—
     (a) to or in respect of persons who are or have been members and have been or are members of a Parliament of a State or of the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory; and
     (b) to persons to whom an annuity is payable, being persons who have been or are members of the Parliament of a State or of the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory.".
13. Before section 24 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted in Part VI:

Notional salaries for certain offices
"23. Where a person is entitled to additional retiring allowance under sub-section 18 (9) in respect of an office in respect of which a salary was not or is not being paid at any relevant time, whether for the reason that there was not or is not any such office at that time or for any other reason, then, for the purposes of this