68Transitional

68 Transitional

68.1 If, in its application to a member, there is a difference in any material respect between a provision of this Statute and the corresponding provision of the previous statute, the member is entitled to use the provision that would be more beneficial to the member.

68.2 If a person was, immediately before the commencement of this Statute, a member within the meaning of the previous statute, nothing in this Statute is to be taken as terminating or adversely affecting the person’s membership after the commencement of this Statute.

68.3 Nothing in this Statute operates to confer eligibility on a person to be a member under this Statute if the person was not, or could not have been, a member under the previous statute.

68.4 To avoid doubt, a reference in this Statute to a provision in this Statute is, if the case so requires, taken to be a reference to the corresponding provision in the previous statute.