Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00651:section:20a:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00651
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 20A (pt 2/3)
Character Range: 125475–127879

the Commonwealth within 3 years.
 (1A) References in subsection (1) to the Parliament of a State shall be construed as including references to the Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory and the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory.
 (1B) The period of service of a member shall not be deemed to include any period after 19 October 1974 and before 23 September 1979 during which the member was a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory unless the member elected under section 26 of the Legislative Assembly Members' Superannuation Act 1979 of the Northern Territory to have his or her period of service as a member of that Legislative Assembly during that period treated as membership for the purposes of that Act.
 (2) Any amounts paid by a person to the Commonwealth under paragraph (1)(b) shall be deemed, for the purposes of this Act other than section 16, to be contributions made by the person.
 (3) Where a person who has contracted with the Trust under subsection (1) of this section to pay an amount to the Commonwealth elects under subsection 18B(3) to convert a percentage of the retiring allowance to which he or she is entitled into a lump sum payment, there shall be deducted from that lump sum payment so much of the amount as remains to be paid under the contract and, upon the deduction being made, the person is, to the extent of the amount deducted, discharged from further liability to make payments under the contract.
 (4) If an eligible member makes an election under subsection (1AC) of this section:
 (a) paragraph 22Q(1)(b) has effect, in relation to the eligible member, as if the reference in that paragraph to 3 months after the date on which he or she became a member were a reference to the earlier of the times referred to in subsection (1AD) of this section; and
 (b) paragraph 22Q(1)(c) has effect, in relation to the eligible member, as if the reference in that paragraph to the expiration of that period of 3 months were a reference to the earlier of the times referred to in subsection (1AD) of this section.
 (5) If an eligible member does not make an election under subsection (1AC) of this section, section 22Q has effect, in relation to the eligible member, as if subsection 4(4A) had not been enacted.
 (6) In this section:
general election means a general election of the members of the House of Representatives.