14Statutory office holders

14 Statutory office holders

(1) Where: (a) a person is the holder of a statutory office to which the person has been appointed on a full‑time basis; and (b) the person requests CSC to direct, under this section, that he or she be treated as an eligible employee for the purposes of this Act; CSC may direct that the person is an eligible employee for the purposes of this Act. (4) A direction under subsection (1) in relation to a person who is the holder of a statutory office has effect from: (a) where the person has been holding that office for longer than one year—the day of the direction; or (b) in any other case—the day specified in the direction, which may be a day earlier than the day on which the direction is given but not earlier than the day on which the person commenced to hold that office. (5) This section does not apply in relation to a person who is on 1 July 1990, or becomes after that date, the holder of a statutory office unless: (a) immediately before the person became or becomes the holder of the statutory office: (i) invalidity pension was, or would, but for a suspension of payment, have been, payable to him or her under this Act; or (ii) deferred benefits were applicable to him or her under this Act or the superseded Act; or (iii) a pension of a kind mentioned in section 64A or 65 of the superseded Act as in force immediately before the repeal of that section was, or but for a suspension of payment would have been, payable to him or her; or (b) the person became or becomes, by virtue of his or her becoming the holder of the statutory office, a re‑employed former contributor with preserved rights.