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and sub-section (2.) of section 45d of the Principal Act did not apply to him upon his so ceasing; and
       (c) if this Act had been in force at the time he so ceased—
            (i) he would, before he so ceased, have been a person who had completed fifteen years' qualifying service for the purpose of the Principal Act as amended by this Act; or
            (ii) sub-section (2.) of section 45d of the Principal Act as amended by this Act would have applied to him upon his so ceasing,
this Act, and the amendments made by this Act, apply in relation to him as if this Act had come into operation immediately before he so ceased.

Completion of 20 years' qualifying service under Principal Act after commencement of this Act.
6.—(1.) Where—
       (a) a person had, before the commencement of this Act, completed more than fifteen years', but less than twenty years', qualifying service for the purposes of the Principal Act;
       (b) after the commencement of this Act, he completes such service as a waterside worker as represents twenty years' qualifying service for the purposes of the Principal Act; and
       (c) he has not taken any long service leave to which, on or before the day on which he completed the service referred to in the last preceding paragraph, he became entitled under the Principal Act as amended by this Act,
he becomes entitled, on that day, in lieu of the entitlement referred to in paragraph (c) of this sub-section, to long service leave for a number of days equal to the number by which seventy-eight exceeds the number of days for which he had, before the commencement of this Act, become entitled to long service leave under the Stevedoring Industry Act 1956–1961 or that Act as amended and in force at any time before the commencement of this Act.
(2.) Where a person who has become entitled to long service leave under the last preceding sub-section becomes entitled to further long service leave under the Principal Act as amended by this Act, that further entitlement shall be reduced by a number of days equal to the number of days by which the entitlement under the last preceding sub-section exceeds the entitlement referred to in paragraph (c) of that sub-section.

(3.) Where a person becomes entitled to long service leave under this section and that person had, before the commencement of this Act, become entitled to a period of long service leave under the Stevedoring Industry Act 1956–1961, or that Act as amended and in force at any time before the commencement of this Act, that last-mentioned entitlement shall, for the purposes of sub-section (1.) of this section, be deemed