a. Any person becoming a member of the Police and Firemen’s Retirement System pursuant to the provisions of this 1975 amendatory and supplementary act shall not be allowed any of the group life insurance benefits if on the date he files an application for enrollment he is 55 or more years of age, unless he furnishes satisfactory evidence of insurability and on the effective date of membership is actively at work and performing all his regular duties at his customary place of employment. The effective date of coverage for such benefits shall be the first day of the month which immediately follows the date when such evidence is determined to be satisfactory.

b. Such evidence of insurability will not be required of any person becoming a member upon transfer from the Public Employees’ Retirement System or a county pension fund, if the transferring employee was covered by such benefits in the latter system at the time of the transfer. If such transferring employee was not covered by such benefits at the time of the transfer, he may be allowed the benefits under the group life insurance policy or policies subject to the provisions of subsection a. of this section; provided, however, that any such employee must furnish satisfactory evidence of insurability under the provisions of subsection a. of this section, if he had been unable or failed to give such evidence as a member of the Public Employees’ Retirement System or a county pension fund.

L.1973, c. 156, s. 7, eff. June 1, 1973. Amended by L.1975, c. 303, s. 4, eff. Feb. 2, 1976.