23Definitions applying to this Part only

23 Definitions applying to this Part only

(1) In this Part—

comparable full-time employee in relation to a part-time employee means an employee who is employed in similar employment to the part-time employment on a full-time basis, whether or not there is such an employee;

full-time employee means an employee who is deemed by the Board to have been employed on a full-time basis throughout the year;

part-time employee means an employee (not being a full-time employee)—

(a) in respect of whom his or her employer certifies in writing to the Board is employed on a basis which requires him or her to render part-time service; or

(b) who is deemed by the Board to be a part-time employee;

pro rata in relation to a part-time employee means—

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A is the total service of the part-time employee;

B is the total service that the part-time employee would have rendered if he or she had been a comparable full-time employee throughout his or her service as a part-time employee;

total service in relation to an employee means the total in years of his or her continuous service, whether as a full-time or part-time employee, and, where that total is relevant to the calculation of benefits on death or retirement on grounds of disability, includes prospective service.

(2) The service of a part-time employee is to be the proportion that his or her actual part-time service bears to the service that a comparable full-time employee would have been required to render.

(3) The prospective service of a part-time employee at any time is to be calculated on the proportion that his or her average service over the preceding 3 years or his or her period of membership of the Fund (whichever is the lesser) bears to the service which would have been required of a comparable full-time employee over the same period.