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and fifty-six of the Principal Act are repealed.
(2.) Notwithstanding the last preceding sub-section—
       (a) pensions payable immediately before the date of commencement of this section under any of the sections repealed by that sub-section shall continue to be payable; and
       (b) pensions may be paid to or in respect of the widow and children of a former employee who was, immediately before the date of commencement of this section, in receipt of such a pension and dies on or after that date,
as if those sections had not been repealed, and the provisions of those sections shall continue to apply in relation to pensions referred to in this sub-section.
15.—(1.) Section sixty aba of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section inserted in its stead:—

Certain contributors who change nature of their employment to continue as contributors.
"60aba.—(1.) Where an employee who is a contributor to the Provident Account, not being an employee referred to in paragraph (a) of the next succeeding sub-section, resigns from his employment and, immediately after the date of his resignation, becomes employed by the Commonwealth or by an approved authority otherwise than as a casual, exempt or temporary employee, he shall be deemed not to have ceased, by reason of his resignation, to be a contributor to the Provident Account.
"(2.) Where—
       (a) the employment of a contributor to the Provident Account, being a person who is deemed to be an employee by virtue of sub-section (5.) or (6.) of section four of this Act, subsection (6.) of section nine of the High Commissioner Act 1909–1952 or sub-section (2.) of section thirteen of the Australian Security Intelligence Organization Act 1956, terminates or is terminated; and
       (b) immediately after the date on which his employment terminates or is terminated, he becomes employed by the Commonwealth or by an approved authority on terms that require him to give the whole of his time to the duties of his employment,
he shall be deemed not to have ceased, by reason of that termination of his employment, to be a contributor to the Provident Account.".
(2.) The amendment made by the last preceding sub-section, except in so far as it relates to persons employed under the Australian Security Intelligence Organization Act 1956, shall be deemed to have come into operation on the first day of November, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-four, but shall not apply in relation to a contributor to the Provident Account who, before the date on which this Act received the Royal Assent, received payment of an amount in accordance with section sixty ab of the

Superannuation Act 1922–1954, or of that Act as amended, in consequence of the termination of his