Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C1954A00011:section:975:p7
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C1954A00011
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 975 (pt 7/12)
Character Range: 23345–26078

Account is on leave of absence without pay otherwise than on the ground of illness—
       (a) if the leave is not required, under the conditions of his employment, to be treated as not forming part of the period of his service—he is liable to pay the contributions that he would have been liable to pay if he had not been absent; and
       (b) in any other case—he is not liable or entitled to pay contributions during the period of leave.".

Payments on retirement.
19. Section sixty y of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (1.) the words "two and two-thirds" and inserting in their stead the word "three".

Payments on death of contributor with dependants.
20. Section sixty z of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (1.) the words "two and two-thirds" and inserting in their stead the word "three".

21. After section sixty ac of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:—

Rights of contributors who have been candidates at elections.
"60aca. Notwithstanding anything contained in any Act, where a contributor to the Provident Account—
       (a) resigned from the Public Service of the Commonwealth in order to become a candidate for election as a member of any House of the Parliament of the Commonwealth or of a State;

       (b) was a candidate at the election;
       (c) failed to be elected; and
       (d) is re-appointed to the Public Service of the Commonwealth on application made within two months after the declaration of the result of the election or dies before the expiration of that period,
he shall, for the purposes of this Part, be deemed to have continued in his previous employment in the Public Service of the Commonwealth up to the date of his re-appointment or death, as the case may be, and to have received salary accordingly.".

Payments by Commonwealth.
22. Section sixty ae of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (1.) the word "five-eighths" and inserting in its stead the word "two-thirds".

Provisions relating to former contributors to Public Service Superannuation Funds.
23. Section sixty av of the Principal Act is amended by omitting sub-section (3.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-section:—
"(3.) Where an amount referred to in sub-section (1.) of this section is paid to the Board, the Commonwealth Actuary shall certify the number of fully paid units (including, where necessary, a fraction of a unit) which should be credited to the contributor, and the contributor shall be deemed to be a contributor for that number of units, but is not required to make contributions in respect of those units.".

Extraordinary vacancies— appointments to fill.
24. Section sixty-three of the Principal Act is