Statutory Rules

1978 No. 228

REGULATIONS UNDER THE SUPERANNUATION ACT 1976*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Superannuation Act 1976.

Dated this sixteenth day of November 1978.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Finance

AMENDMENT OF THE SUPERANNUATION (RETIRING AGE) REGULATIONS†

Commencement

1. These Regulations shall be deemed to have taken effect from and including 1 July 1976.

2. Regulation 4 of the Superannuation (Retiring Age) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation substituted:

Maximum retiring age

“ 4. (1) For the purposes of the definition of ‘ maximum retiring age ’ in sub-section 3 (1) of the Act, the age of 60 years is the maximum retiring age applicable to an eligible employee who is—

(a) a Commonwealth Police Officer;

(b) a member of the Police Force of the Australian Capital Territory (other than the Commissioner of Police or the Deputy Commissioner of Police);

(c) a member of the Police Force of the Northern Territory whose maximum retiring age, in accordance with the terms and conditions of his employment, is the age of 60 years;

* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 23 November 1978.

† Statutory Rules 1977 No. 106.

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(d) a member of the Australian Capital Territory Fire Brigade;

(e) an officer of the Australian Security Intelligence Organization; or

(f) an officer or employee of the Australian National Airlines Commission whose maximum retiring age, in accordance with the terms and conditions of his employment, is the age of 60 years,

and, in the case of an eligible employee who is an existing contributor, who was, immediately before the commencing day, contributing under the superseded Act for units of pension at rates based on a retiring age of 60 years.

“(2) For the purposes of the definition of ‘ maximum retiring age ’ in sub-section 3 (1) of the Act, the age of 60 years is the maximum retiring age applicable to a person—

(a) who has ceased to be, and is not, an eligible employee; and

(b) whose maximum retiring age on his last day of service was 60 years.”.

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