12(1)For the purposes of this Schedule—
" public appointment " means any employment the emoluments of which are payable out of public funds ;
" service " means whole-time or part-time service in any office after the officer has attained the age of eighteen years ;
" material date "—
in the case of an officer who, on ceasing to be engaged in war service, was not re-employed in his former office, - or was so re-employed with reduced emoluments, means the date on which he ceased to be engaged in war service except that for the purposes of paragraph 5 of this Schedule it means the date on which he became so engaged ;
in the case of an officer who, on ceasing to be engaged in war service, was re-employed in his former office without any reduction of emoluments and whose office has been subsequently determined or whose emoluments have been subsequently reduced means the date on which the determination or reduction of emoluments took effect.
(2)Any reference in this Schedule' to the loss of an office or to a reduction of the emoluments of an office shall be construed as referring to a case where the officer, on ceasing to be engaged in war service, was not re-employed in that office or, as the case may be, was re-employed therein with reduced emoluments, as well as to a case where the office was determined or, as the case may be, the emoluments reduced after the officer had been re-employed therein on ceasing to be engaged in war service.