Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C1971A00046:body:0:p4
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approved authority certifies that the person's employment is likely to be continued for a period that is not less than the difference between seven years and the total of the periods of his prior employment.".

Superannuation provision for certain persons by way of life assurance.
5. Section 7 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-sections:—
"(4.) Payments by the Commonwealth in pursuance of an arrangement made under this section may be made out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, which is appropriated accordingly.
"(5.) This section has effect subject to section one hundred and nineteen zd of this Act.".

Commencement and cessation of contributions.
6. Section 19 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting paragraph (c) of sub-section (1a.) and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—
     "(c) in the case of a person who is to be deemed to be an employee within the meaning of section four of this Act by virtue of sub-section (4.), (5.), (5a.) or (6.) of that section—the date as from which he is to be deemed to be, or to have been, an employee or, if that date is not, or was not, a pay-day, the next succeeding pay-day after that date.".

Units of pension.
7. Section 20 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting paragraph (b) of sub-section (10.) and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—
      "(b) the number of years of prospective service of an employee is the number of complete years included in the sum of the following periods:—
          (i) the period that commenced on the date upon which he became an employee and ends on the date upon which he will attain his selected retiring age;
           (ii) in the case of an employee who became an employee after the commencement of the Superannuation Act 1971 and was, immediately before he became an employee, a contributor to a Public Service Superannuation Fund within the meaning of Part VIII. of this Act—the period during which he was a contributor to that Fund; and
           (iii) in the case of an employee who became an employee after the commencement of the Superannuation Act 1971 and was, at any time before he became an employee, employed in employment of a kind referred to in section one hundred and nineteen h of this Act—any periods of such employment during which he was a member of a superannuation scheme applicable in relation to the employment.".

Election ineffective if number of contributory units is, or falls below, number of initial units.
8. Section 22d of the Principal Act is amended—
     (a) by omitting from paragraph (a) of sub-section (1.) the words "neither of the next two succeeding