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5 Where a contributor makes an election pursuant to section 4, he shall pay the contributions he would otherwise have had to pay as provided

• (a) in section 6 of the Act, as that section stood on the 1st day of March, 1960, as if he had made an election pursuant to that Act within the appropriate time prescribed in clause (B) of subparagraph (i) of paragraph (b) of section 5 or in clause (A), (B), (C), (D), (E), (F), (G), (H) or (J) of subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (b) of section 5 of the Act, or

• (b) in subsection (2) of section 48 of the Defence Services Pension Actas that section stood immediately before the coming into force of the Canadian Forces Superannuation Act, as if he had made an election pursuant to section 48 of that Act within the appropriate time prescribed,

as applicable.

• [...]

• (2) Every election made under subsection (1) shall be in the form prescribed by the Minister of National Defence and the provisions of the Act with regard to the making of elections, except as provided in subsection (1) of this section and in paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of section 7 of the Act, shall apply mutatis mutandis to the making of such an election.

3 These Regulations apply to a contributor under the Act who, by reason of erroneous advice that he received from a member of the Canadian Forces or person employed in the Public Service, whose ordinary duties included the giving of advice as to the election of service under the Act or Part V of the Defence Services Pension Act, failed to elect in respect of service prior to becoming a contributor under such Act within the time prescribed therein to pay for that service.

1 These Regulations may be cited as the Canadian Forces Superannuation Special Election Regulations.