62.-(1) Τhis Part of this Law as enacted in the Elementary Education (Amendment) Law, 1944 as amended by the Elementary Education (Amendment) Law, 1949 shall be deemed to have commenced on the 1st day of September, 1942, and shall apply to-
(a) every teacher whose name was, on the date aforesaid, on the Permanent Staff Register; and
(b) subject to the provisions of subsection (2) every teacher whose name was entered, after the date aforesaid, on the Permanent Staff Register:
Provided that this Part of this Law shall not apply to any teacher who made an election under and in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (a) of the Proviso to section 49A of the Elementary Education Law as enacted in section 23 of the Elementary Education (Amendment) Law, 1944.
(2) This Part of this Law as enacted in the Elementary Education (Amendment) Law, 1944, as amended by the Elementary Education (Amendment) Law, 1947 shall be deemed to have commenced on the 1st day of January, 1945, and shall apply to-
(a) every teacher whose name was on the Permanent Staff Register on that date and who has not made an election under section 49A of the Elementary Education Law as enacted in section 23 of the Elementary Education (Amendment) Law, 1944;
(b) every teacher whose name was on the Permanent Staff Register on that date and continued to be on that Register on the 3rd day of July, 1947 and who has made an election under section 49A of the Elementary Education Law as enacted in section 23 of the Elementary Education (Amendment) Law, 1944;
(c) any teacher whose name was entered on the Permanent Staff Register between the 1st day of January, 1945 and the 3rd day of July, 1947;
(d) any teacher whose name is entered in the Permanent Staff Register after the 3rd day of July, 1947:
Provided that this Part of this Law as amended by the Elementary Education (Amendment) Law, 1947 shall not apply to any teacher who has made an election under and in accordance with the provisions of subsection (2) of section 3 of the Elementary Education (Amendment) Law, 1947, unless he is permitted by the Governor to revoke such election at any time before he attains the age of fifty-five years, and all matters relating to the pension or gratuity and the age of retirement of any such teacher shall be regulated and determined as if the Elementary Education Laws, 1933 to 1944 had not been amended by the Elementary Education (Amendment) Law 1947:
Provided that nothing in the foregoing Proviso contained shall apply to the amendment of section 42j of the Elementary Education Law as set out in paragraph (E) of section 2 of the Elementary Education (Amendment) Law 1947 whereby the words “five-sixths” were substituted for the words “two-thirds” which occurred in that section before such amendment.