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March 1981.
(4) The amendments made by section 21 shall be deemed to have come into operation on 1 October 1984.
(5) The amendments made by section 56 shall be deemed to have come into operation on 1 July 1978.
(6) The amendments made by sections 20, 22 and 32, sub-section 33 (3), section 35 and sub-sections 67 (2) and 75 (3) shall come into operation on a day to be fixed by Proclamation.

PART II—AMENDMENTS OF THE SUPERANNUATION ACT 1976

Principal Act
3. The Superannuation Act 19761 is in this Part referred to as the Principal Act.

Interpretation
4. (1) Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended—
     (a) by omitting from the definition of "eligible employee" in sub-section (1) "but does not include" and substituting "but, in relation to a person to whom any of the preceding paragraphs of this definition, other than paragraph (ea), applies, does not include";
     (b) by inserting in sub-section (6) "of the Commonwealth or" after "law"; and
     (c) by adding at the end the following sub-section:
     "(8) A reference in this Act to a medical examination by a medical practitioner does not include a reference to a medical examination by a person other than a person registered or licensed as a medical practitioner under a law of a State or Territory that provides for the registration or licensing of medical practitioners unless—
         (a) the medical examination is made in a place that is not in Australia or an external Territory; and
         (b) the person is registered or licensed as a medical practitioner under a law of that place that provides for the registration or licensing of medical practitioners.".
(2) Notwithstanding the amendment made by paragraph (1) (a), where, immediately before the commencement of this section, a person to whom paragraph (ea) of the definition of "eligible employee" in sub-section 3 (1) of the Principal Act applied was not an eligible employee within the meaning of the Principal Act because paragraph (h), (j), (k) or (l) of that definition

applied to the person, that person shall become an eligible employee within the meaning of the Principal Act as amended and in force after the commencement of this section if, and only if, he or she becomes a person to whom paragraph (b), (c), (d), (e), (ea), (f) or (g), but none of the other paragraphs, of the definition of "eligible employee" in sub-section 3 (1) of the Principal Act as so amended and in force applies.

Annual rate of salary
5. (1) Section 5 of the Principal Act is amended—
     (a) by omitting sub-section (1) and substituting the following sub-section:
     "(1) In this section, 'salary' means salary or wages and includes any allowance, or