5Service for pension

5 Service for pension

(1) For the purposes of sections six and seven of this Act, service for pension, in relation to a person, includes:

(a) service before attaining the age of twenty years under the engagement under which he was serving immediately before his retirement or, if he has had successive and continuous engagements, under the first of those engagements, other than service under an initial engagement of less than six years; and

(b) service in respect of which, by virtue of section thirty‑six of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948‑1955 or of that Act as amended from time to time, he was not permitted or required to contribute to the Fund.

(2) Where, by virtue of an election made by a person to whom this Act applies under section twenty‑six of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948 or of that Act as amended from time to time, a period of service, or part of a period of service, of the person was required to be taken into account for the purposes of pension under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948‑1959, that period or that part of that period, as the case may be, shall be taken into account for the purposes of pension under this Act, but shall not be taken into account for any other purpose of this Act.