9. Section 11A of the Principal Act is amended—
(a) by inserting in subsection (3) “under section 7” after “employer”; and
(b) by adding at the end the following subsection:
“(4) For the purposes of subsection (1), long service leave is to be taken to have accrued in respect of any uncompleted period of 5 years service that commenced immediately after the expiration of the last period of service in respect of which long service leave accrued to the person in the same proportion as the number of years or months of service completed bears to 5 years.”.