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time of the election at which his successor is elected, a candidate for election as a senator or, if his successor is elected at a general election of members of the

        House of Representatives, a candidate for election either as a senator or as a member of the House of Representatives; and
        (iv) who satisfies the Trust that his failure to be such a candidate was due to ill-health,
but does not apply to a person to whom paragraph (aa) of sub-section (2) of section 18 applies.

"(2) The period of service of a person to whom this section applies shall be deemed to be eight years if—
    (a) the person satisfies the Trust that the ill-health was attributable to a physical or mental injury or condition that occurred while he was a member;
    (b) in the case of a person to whom paragraph (c) does not apply—the person furnished to the Trust within three months, or, if the Trust so allowed, six months, after the day on which he became a member or the date of commencement of this section, whichever was the later, a certificate by a legally qualified medical practitioner to the effect that the person was not likely to become, within a period of eight years, incapable by reason of ill-health of per­forming the duties of a member; or
    (c) in the case of a person referred to in sub-section (1) of section 20 or a person to whom section 20a or 22q applies—he furnished to the Trust within three months, or, if the Trust so allowed, six months, after the day on which he became a member (or, if he has become a member on more than one occasion, the day on which he last became a member) or the date of commencement of this section, whichever was the later, a certificate by a legally qualified medical practitioner to the effect that the person was not likely to become, within a period specified in the certificate being a period that is not less than the period that is the prescribed period in relation to the person, incapable by reason of ill-health of performing the duties of a member.

"(3) For the purposes of paragraph (c) of sub-section (2), the prescribed period in relation to a person to whom that paragraph applies is the period of eight years less any period or periods referred to in any one or more of the following paragraphs that is or are applicable in relation to him:—
    (a) if he is a person referred to in sub-section (1) of section 20 who has contracted in accordance with that sub-section—the part of the period of service of the person that is