15ANApplication of this Part to new and certain existing servants

15AN Application of this Part to new and certain existing servants

15AN Application of this Part to new and certain existing servants

(1) This section applies to a person who—

(a) on 31 March 1977 was not but subsequently becomes a servant,

(b) on 31 March 1977 was a servant and on or after that date ceased or ceases to be a servant, but after that date becomes a servant (whether of the same or a different employer), or

(c) on 31 March 1977 was a servant but not a permanent servant.

(2) A servant who is a person to whom this section applies may, in a form approved by the board, elect to come under the provisions of this Part.

(2A) A servant who is a person to whom this section applies and who is entitled or required to become a contributor to the State Superannuation Fund may not become a contributor under this section unless he makes an election under subsection (2) before the day referred to in subsection (3) (b).

(2B) A person who has become a contributor under this section and who would, but for this subsection, be and have been, from a time before he so became a contributor, entitled or required to become a contributor to the State Superannuation Fund may not become while he remains a person to whom this section applies, and shall be deemed not to have been, since that time and while he remained a person to whom this section applied, entitled or required to become, a contributor to the State Superannuation Fund.

(3) Subject to subsection (2A), a servant who is a person to whom this section applies, and who is not already a contributor, becomes a contributor on—

(a) if he makes an election under subsection (2)—the first day of the second month after that in which his election is received by the board, or

(b) if he has, since last becoming a servant, completed a period of 3 years’ continuous service with one or more employers—the first day of the second month after that in which he completed that period of service.

(4) Subsection (3) (b) does not apply to—

(a) a person who had, when he last became a servant, attained the age of 55 years, or

(b) a person exempted from the operation of that paragraph under subsection (13).