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Schedule 1—Glossary
Rule 2
Part 1—Definitions

1. In these Rules, unless the contrary intention appears:
"actuary" means a Fellow or an Accredited Member of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia;
"Board" means the Military Superannuation and Benefits Board of Trustees established by section 13 of the Act;
"calendar month" means a period commencing at the beginning of a day of one of the 12 months of the year and ending immediately before the beginning of the corresponding day of the next month or, if there is no such corresponding day, ending at the expiration of the next month;
"child", in relation to a person who has died, means a child (including an adopted child, an ex‑nuptial child, a stepchild, a ward or a foster child) of the person or of a spouse of the person;
"classification" means a classification referred to in rule 22;
"Committee", in Part 3 of these Rules, means the Incapacity Classification Committee established under rule 17;
"Committee", in Part 9 of these Rules, means a Reconsideration Advisory Committee established under rule 72;
"contribution" means contribution to the Fund;
"Department" means the Department of State for Defence;
"eligible child", in relation to a person who has died and was, at the time of his or her death, a member or a retirement pensioner, means a person who:
     (a) is a child in relation to the deceased person other than (where the deceased person was a retirement pensioner at the time of his or her death) a child who is declared by CSC not to be an eligible child for the purposes of these Rules; and
     (b) is a person who has not attained the age of 16 years or:
          (i) who has attained the age of 16 years but has not attained the age of 25 years; and
          (ii) is receiving full‑time education at a school, college or university or other full‑time education approved by CSC for the purposes of this subparagraph; and
          (iii) is not ordinarily in employment or engaged in work on his or her own account; and
     (c) immediately before the deceased person's death:
          (i) ordinarily lived with the deceased person; or
          (ii) was, in the opinion of CSC, wholly or substantially dependent upon the deceased person; or
          (iii) where the person is a child born after the deceased person's death, ordinarily would have been, in the opinion of CSC, living with the deceased person or so dependent if the person had been born before the death of the deceased person;
"eligible service", in relation to a person, means service calculated in accordance with Schedule 6;
"Emergency Forces" has the same meaning as in the Defence Act 1903;
"employer benefit", in relation to a