7CAdditional contributions to Provident Fund

7C Additional contributions to Provident Fund

7C Additional contributions to Provident Fund

(1) A permanent servant who at the commencement of the Local Government and Other Authorities (Superannuation) Amendment Act 1959 has attained the age of fifty-five years and is insured under the provisions of section 4 or sections 4 and 5 or is a permanent servant in respect of whom contributions are made to the Provident Fund or is so insured and is a permanent servant in respect of whom contributions are made as aforesaid may, within six months after such commencement or thereafter at such times as may be prescribed, request, in the prescribed manner, that contributions or additional contributions be made annually to the Provident Fund on his behalf of an amount which does not exceed—

(a) the difference between—

(i) any premium payable in respect of any such insurance and annual contribution made to the Provident Fund in respect of him, and

(ii) forty per centum of his salary for the time being, or

(b) eight hundred and sixty dollars,

whichever is the lesser.

(2) A permanent servant who by virtue of the operation of paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of section 7 is exempted from the obligation to effect insurance under section 4 may request, in the prescribed manner, that contributions be made to the Provident Fund on his behalf in respect of any number of units of or additional cover units of insurance of two hundred dollars each for which he would have been eligible if he had not been so exempted.

Any request under this subsection shall—

(a) in the case of a permanent servant who is at the commencement of the Local Government and Other Authorities (Superannuation) Amendment Act 1959 exempted from the obligation to effect insurance under section 4, be made within six months after such commencement or thereafter at such times as may be prescribed,

(b) in the case of a permanent servant who after such commencement becomes so exempted, be made within six months after the date upon which the provisions of this Act are applied to him or the date of his appointment, as the case may be, or thereafter at such times as may be prescribed.

(3) Any permanent servant—

(a) to whom the provisions of this Act are applied, or who is appointed as such, after the commencement of the and who is exempted from the obligation to effect insurance under section 4 by virtue of the operation of paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section 7, or