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after the commencement of this Act and any contributions made after that commencement in respect of a period before that commencement shall be paid to the Commonwealth but shall be deemed to be contributions to the Ministerial Retiring Allowances Fund.
(9) Payments in respect of retiring allowances, annuities and other benefits (including refunds of contributions) under Part Va of the Principal Act shall be made by the Commonwealth.
(10) Notwithstanding section 22j of the Principal Act, the period of service of a person for the purposes of Part Va of the Principal Act does not include any period after the commencement of this Act.
(11) For the purposes of sub-section 22h(3) of the Principal Act, occasions after the commencement of this Act shall be disregarded.
(12) Where the benefit to which a person would be entitled under section 22h of the Principal Act if, at the commencement of this Act, he ceased to be entitled to a parliamentary allowance and his ministerial salary (if any) otherwise than by reason of his death would be a refund of his contributions, then, notwithstanding that section, he is entitled to that refund forthwith.
(13) If a person has qualified, subject only to his ceasing to be entitled to a parliamentary allowance and his ministerial salary (if any) otherwise than by reason of his death, to be paid a retiring allowance under section 22h of the Principal Act and—
    (a) within three months after the commencement of this Act, the person elects, by writing under his hand addressed to the Trust, that this sub-section should apply to him; or

    (b) the person qualifies, subject only to his ceasing to be entitled to a parliamentary allowance otherwise than by reason of his death, to be paid a retiring allowance under section 19a of the Principal Act by reason of having held the office of Prime Minister,
he is thereupon entitled to a refund of his contributions, and no other benefit is payable under Part Va of the Principal Act to or in respect of him.
(14) Sub-section 22m(1) of the Principal Act ceases to have effect but, where a person who has been a contributor and is in receipt of a retiring allowance under Part Va of the Principal Act again becomes entitled to a parliamentary allowance or ministerial salary, the retiring allowance is not payable in respect of the period during which the person is in receipt of a parliamentary allowance or ministerial salary.
(15) In this section, expressions that are used in Part Va of the Principal Act have, unless the contrary intention appears, the same respective meanings as those expressions have in that Part.

23. Before Part VI of the Principal Act