44Completion of engagement

#### 44 Completion of engagement (1) Subject to this section, a member shall not, for the purposes of sections 41, 42 and 43, be deemed to have completed an engagement unless he has served under the engagement up to the date on which the engagement was due to terminate. (2) Where a member, before the completion of his engagement, or, if he has had successive and continuous engagements, before the completion of the last of those engagements: (a) retires with the approval of the Service Board; or (b) is retrenched or is otherwise discharged for reasons other than disciplinary reasons; he shall, for the purposes of subsection 42(1), be deemed to have completed his engagement or the last of those engagements, as the case may be, but, for the purposes of subsection 42(2), he shall not be deemed to have completed a period of service for pension longer than the period completed by him immediately before his retirement or discharge.