12Contributors who were formerly contributors to the Account, or are Transport Department officers or Police Department appointees

12 Contributors who were formerly contributors to the Account, or are Transport Department officers or Police Department appointees

12 Contributors who were formerly contributors to the Account, or are Transport Department officers or Police Department appointees

(1) The following persons, that is to say—

(a) a contributor to the Account,

(b) an officer within the meaning of the Transport Act 1930 who at the commencement of this Act was not a contributor to any superannuation fund or account established under the Transport Act 1930, the Government Railways Act 1912, the Superannuation Act 1916, the Railways Retirement Fund Act 1964, and the date of confirmation of whose appointment was before that commencement, and

(c) a Police Department appointee,

may elect to become a contributor.

(2) A contributor to the Account, a gratuity scheme officer of a Police Department appointee who made such an election before the commencement of the Transport Employees Retirement Benefits (Amendment) Act 1971, shall be deemed to have made the election on a prescribed date (which date shall be treated for the purposes of this Act as the date on or before which he was required to make an election), and to have become a contributor on a date determined as provided in subsection (3).

(2A) In subsection (2) prescribed date means a date determined by the Board being—

(a) in the case of a person referred to in paragraph (a) of subsection (1), either the thirty-first day of March, or the thirty-first day of August, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine,

(b) in the case of a person referred to in paragraph (b) of subsection (1), either the fifteenth day of May, or the thirtieth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine, or

(c) in the case of a person referred to in paragraph (c) of subsection (1), either the thirtieth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-eight, or the thirty-first day of August, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine.

(3) A contributor to the Account, a gratuity scheme officer or a Police Department appointee who has made an election under this section shall, subject to this Act, become a contributor as on and from the first day of the pay period applicable to him next following the date on or before which he is required to make his election.