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that period of service; and
    (b) the number ascertained by dividing the total of the number of days remaining in those periods by three hundred and sixty-five and disregarding any fraction in the number so ascertained.".

30. Section 27 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section substituted:—

Appropriation.
"27. Payments by the Commonwealth for the purposes of this Act shall be made out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, which is appropriated accordingly.".

Formal amendments.
31. The Principal Act is amended as set out in the following table:—

Provision amended             Amendment
Section 2..............          Omit "the first day of December, One thousand nine hundred and forty-eight", substitute "1st December, 1948".
Section 15..............      Omit "nineteen a of this Act", substitute "19A".
Section 17(5)(a)..........    Omit "section twenty or section thirty-eight", substitute "section 20 or 38".
Section 17(5)(b)..........    (a) Omit "forty-four", substitute "44".
                                 (b) Omit "sub-section (iii) of section forty-five", substitute "paragraph (iii) of section 45".
Section 18(3)............     Omit "fifteen", substitute "15".
Section 18(4)(a)..........    Omit "of this section".
Section 19a(1) and (2a).....  Omit "of this section".
Section 22..............      (a) Omit "forty-four", substitute "44".
                              (b) Omit "forty-five", substitute "45".

Application of Part Vb to persons who became members on or after 1st January 1970 and before commencement of Act.
32. (1) A person who became a member on or after 1st January, 1970, and before the commencement of this Act may, within three months after the commencement of this Act, elect that this section shall have effect in relation to him and, where an election is so made, the Parliamentary Retiring Allowances Act 1948-1973 applies in relation to him, subject to this section, as if the definitions of "life policy" and "participant" in sub-section 4 (1), sub-sections 4 (3) and (4), section 4a, and Part Vb, of that Act had come into operation immediately before he became a member.
(2) The Trust may, if it is satisfied that there are special circumstances in relation to a person that justify it in so doing, extend the period for the making of an election by that person under sub-section (1).
(3) In the application of Part Vb of the Parliamentary Retiring Allowances Act 1948-1973 in relation to a person who has made an election under sub-section (1), the reference in paragraph 22q (1) (b) of that Act to the date on which he became a member shall be read as a reference to the date on which he made the election.
(4) Where a person who is entitled to make an election under this section dies within the period of three months referred to in sub-section (1), or within any period for which that period has been extended in relation to that person under sub-section