ELECTRICITY (PACIFIC POWER) ACT 1950 - SECT 72OA Application of the New South Wales Retirement Benefits Act 1972

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ELECTRICITY (PACIFIC POWER) ACT 1950 - SECT 72OA

72OA Application of the New South Wales Retirement Benefits Act 1972

(1) For the purposes of calculating the duration of the period of service of an employee under the New South Wales Retirement Benefits Act 1972 :

(a) where a prescribed person becomes such an employee by reason of his or her having made an election under section 72O--any period during which, by the operation of paragraph (c) of the definition of "employee" in section 3 (1) of that Act, he or she was not such an employee shall be reckoned as if he or she had been an employee during that period, and

(b) where a prescribed person becomes such an employee by reason of his or her having made an election under section 72O and, at any time before making that election, he or she ceased to be employed by an employer within the meaning of that Act and, not having attained the age of 60 years, he or she was, on or before the expiration of the next succeeding period of 3 months, employed by the same or another such employer--he or she shall be deemed not to have ceased to be employed by such an employer if he or she complies with such terms and conditions as the New South Wales Retirement Board may determine in relation to him or her.

(2) The provisions of section 26 of the New South Wales Retirement Benefits Act 1972 apply to and in respect of a contributor referred to in those provisions who became such a contributor by reason of his or her having made an election under section 72O (2):

(a) as if, notwithstanding section 72O (4), he or she had become such a contributor on:

(i) 1 August 1979, or

(ii) the date on which he or she became a prescribed person,

whichever is the later, and

(b) as if a reference to his or her election date under section 12 of that Act were a reference to:

(i) 1 August 1979, or

(ii) the date on which he or she became a prescribed person,

whichever is the later.

(3) The provisions of section 66 of the New South Wales Retirement Benefits Act 1972 apply to and in respect of the right to make an election under section 72O in the same way as they apply to and in respect of a right to make an election under that Act.