Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00465:section:78:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00465
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 78 (pt 2/3)
Character Range: 195837–198180

which he ceased to be such a member.
 (3) For the purposes of subsection (2), the total period of effective service of a person shall be deemed to be the aggregate of:
 (a) his total period of effective service as defined in section 3;
 (b) any period of public employment in which the person was employed after he ceased to be an eligible member of the Defence Force; and
 (c) any period (not being a period of public employment referred to in paragraph (b)) occurring after the person ceased or last ceased to be an eligible member of the Defence Force and after the person has completed 20 years' eligible employment.
 (4) For the purposes of subsections (2) and (3), a period of public employment in which a person became employed after he ceased to be an eligible member of the Defence Force shall be deemed to be a period of eligible employment of the person.
 (5) Deferred benefits are not payable unless:
 (a) an application in writing has been made to CSC requesting payment of the benefits; and
 (b) the applicant has furnished to CSC any information that is necessary to enable CSC to determine whether the benefits are payable.
 (6) Subject to subsections (7) and (8), where a person in relation to whom paragraph (1)(a) applies and who, at the time when he ceased to be an eligible member of the Defence Force, had not completed 20 years' eligible employment ceases to be employed in public employment and the deferred benefits applicable in respect of him have not become payable under subsection (2), then, those deferred benefits cease to be applicable in respect of him but this Act has effect in relation to him as if the election by him under section 76 had not been made.
 (7) If a deferred benefit by way of a pension benefit has previously become payable to a person referred to in subsection (6) by reason of paragraph (2)(a), any amount that, but for this subsection, would be payable to the person by reason of subsection (6) is payable only to the extent to which it exceeds the sum of the amounts previously paid to him.
 (8) Subsection (6) does not apply in relation to a person if the sum of the periods of eligible employment in which the person has been employed and the period of public employment in which he was employed after he ceased to be an eligible member of the Defence Force is not less than 20 years.