30   Resumption of contributions after break in employment

(1)  This section applies to a contributor where the employment of the contributor with an employer:

(a)  ceases in circumstances entitling the contributor to be paid a benefit under section 40 (Benefit on partial and permanent invalidity before early retirement age),

(b)  ceases in circumstances entitling the contributor to be paid a benefit under section 41 (Benefit on resignation, dismissal or discharge before early retirement age) but the contributor does not elect to make provision for a deferred benefit, or

(c)  ceases in circumstances entitling the contributor to be paid a benefit under section 42 (Benefit on retrenchment before early retirement age),

      and the contributor has not made an application for payment of the benefit.

(2)  If the contributor resumes employment as an employee (with the same or any other employer) before the end of the period of 3 months after the contributor ceased employment in circumstances referred to in subsection (1), the contributor may apply to STC for the resumption of contributions under this Part.

(3)  If STC approves the application:

(a)  any intervening contribution period is taken to be an applicable contribution period in relation to the contributor as an employee of the employer with whom the contributor resumed employment, and

(b)  the contributor is liable to make contributions to the Fund under this Part in respect of the intervening contribution period or periods, as if the contributor had been employed with the employer with whom the contributor has resumed employment for the duration of the intervening contribution period or periods, and

(c)  the employer with whom the contributor has resumed employment is liable to make contributions to the Fund under Part 4 in respect of the intervening contribution period or periods, as if the contributor had been employed with the employer for the duration of the intervening contribution period or periods.

(4)  A contribution in respect of any intervening contribution period is payable in accordance with such directions as may be given by STC.

(5)  In this section, an intervening contribution period means any contribution period that:

(a)  begins before a contributor ceases employment in the circumstances referred to in subsection (1) and has not finished when the contributor ceases that employment, or

(b)  begins after a contributor ceases employment in the circumstances referred to in subsection (1) and finishes before the contributor’s application under subsection (2) takes effect.