Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) Where:
(a) CSC is satisfied that, if a person to whom this Part applies had not terminated his or her employment, he or she would, at a time (in this subsection referred to as the relevant time ) within the period that commenced on the day after the day of the termination and ended on the day of the declaration of the result of the election, have ceased to be an eligible employee by reason of retirement on the ground of invalidity; and
(b) he or she was not a candidate at the election by reason of the physical or mental incapacity which would have been the ground for his or her retirement or was such a candidate but failed to be elected;
he or she shall be deemed not to have ceased, by reason of the termination of his or her employment, to be an eligible employee, but shall be deemed to have ceased, by reason of retirement on the ground of invalidity, to be an eligible employee at the relevant time.
(2) Where:
(a) a person to whom this Part applies and who was a candidate at the election, but failed to be elected, does not apply, within the period of 2 months after the day of the declaration of the result of the election, to become employed by the Commonwealth or by an approved authority, or to be appointed to a statutory office; and
(b) CSC is satisfied that, if he or she had not terminated his or her employment, he or she would, at a time (in this subsection referred to as the relevant time ) within that period, have ceased to be an eligible employee by reason of retirement on the ground of invalidity;
he or she shall be deemed not to have ceased, by reason of the termination of his or her employment, to be an eligible employee, but shall be deemed to have ceased, by reason of retirement on the ground of invalidity, to be an eligible employee at the relevant time.
(3) Where:
(a) a person to whom this Part applies, and who was a candidate at the election, but failed to be elected, applies, within the period of 2 months after the day of the declaration of the result of the election, to become employed by the Commonwealth or by an approved authority, or to be appointed to a statutory office; and
(b) the application is granted but the employment or appointment is of such a kind that the person does not become an eligible employee by virtue of the employment or appointment or the application is not granted but the employment or appointment is of such a kind that, if it had been granted, the person would not, by virtue of the employment or appointment, have become an eligible employee;
then, for the purposes of subsection (2), he or she shall be deemed not to have made the application.
(4) Where a person to whom this Part applies, and who was a candidate at the election, but failed to be elected, applies, within the period of 2 months after the day of the declaration of the result of the election, to become employed by the Commonwealth or by an approved authority, or to be appointed to a statutory office, and the employment or appointment is of such a kind that, if the person had become so employed or appointed, he or she would have become an eligible employee and CSC is satisfied that:
(a) in the case of a person whose application is rejected--if he or she had not terminated his or her employment, he or she would, at a time (in this subsection referred to as the relevant time ) within the period that commenced on the day after the day of the declaration of the result of the election and ended on the day of the rejection, have ceased to be an eligible employee by reason of retirement on the ground of invalidity;
(b) in the case of a person whose application has been granted but who has not become employed by the Commonwealth or by that authority or appointed to that office--if he or she had not terminated his or her employment, he or she would, at a time (in this subsection also referred to as the relevant time ) within the period that commenced on the day after the day of the declaration of the result of the election and ended on the day on which he or she was required to commence his or her employment with the Commonwealth or the authority, have ceased to be an eligible employee by reason of retirement on the ground of invalidity; or
(c) in the case of a person whose application has not been determined--if he or she had not terminated his or her employment, he or she would, at a time (in this subsection also referred to as the relevant time ) after the day of the declaration of the result of the election, have ceased to be an eligible employee by reason of retirement on the ground of invalidity;
then he or she shall be deemed not to have ceased, by reason of the termination of his or her employment in order to become a candidate for election, to be an eligible employee but shall be deemed to have ceased, by reason of retirement on the ground of invalidity, to be an eligible employee at the relevant time.
(5) Where CSC is satisfied that, if a person to whom this Part applies, and who was a candidate at the election and was elected, but did not, by reason of physical or mental incapacity, become a member of the legislative or advisory body to which he or she was elected, had not terminated his or her appointment, he or she would, at a time (in this subsection referred to as the relevant time ) after he or she was elected, have ceased to be an eligible employee by reason of retirement on the ground of invalidity, he or she shall be deemed not to have ceased, by reason of the termination of his or her employment, to be an eligible employee, but shall be deemed to have ceased, by reason of retirement on the ground of invalidity, to be an eligible employee at the relevant time.
(6) For the purposes of this section, CSC may only be satisfied that a person would, at a particular time, have ceased to be an eligible employee by reason of retirement on the ground of invalidity if it appears to CSC that the person, at that time, was totally and permanently incapacitated within the meaning of Part IVA.