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4 (1) may be expressed to have taken effect from and including a day not earlier than 3 months before the making of the regulations.".

Transitional provisions
23. (1) Subject to sub-section (2), notwithstanding the amendments of the Principal Act made by sub-sections 7 (2), 11 (2) and 16 (1) and section 17, the provisions of the Principal Act amended by those sub-sections and that section continue to apply, after the commencement of this sub-section, to a person to whom section 18b of the Principal Act applied before the commencement of this sub-section, in respect of a retiring allowance to which he became entitled before the commencement of this sub-section, as if those amendments had not been made.
(2) Where—
(a) a person has elected or elects (whether on one occasion or more than one occasion) to convert into a lump sum payment the whole or a percentage of a retiring allowance to which he became entitled before the commencement of this sub-section; and
(b) the person becomes entitled, after the commencement of this sub-section, to a retiring allowance (in this sub-section referred to as the "relevant retiring allowance"),
then, notwithstanding anything contained in the Parliamentary Contributory Superannuation Act 1948—
(c) if the person has previously elected on more than one occasion to convert into a lump sum payment the whole or a percentage of a retiring allowance to which he was entitled and the total (in this paragraph referred to as the "relevant total") of the annual amounts by which the respective retiring allowances to which he was entitled were reduced by reason of the elections is not less than 50% of the sum of the relevant total and the annual amount of the relevant retiring allowance—he is not entitled to elect to convert into a lump sum payment any percentage of the relevant retiring allowance;
(d) if the person has previously elected on only one occasion to convert into a lump sum payment the whole or a percentage of a retiring allowance to which he was entitled and the annual amount (in this paragraph referred to as the "relevant amount") by which that retiring allowance was reduced by reason of the election is not less than 50% of the sum of the relevant amount and the annual amount of the relevant retiring allowance—he is not entitled to elect to convert into a lump sum payment any percentage of the relevant retiring allowance;
(e) if the person has previously elected on more than one occasion to convert into a lump sum payment the whole or a percentage of a retiring allowance to which he was entitled and the total (in this paragraph referred to as the "relevant total") of