Statutory Rules 1994  No. 81

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Superannuation (Continuing Contributions for Benefits) Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Superannuation Act 1976.

Dated 28 January 1994.

                                                                                    BILL HAYDEN

                                                                                   Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

KIM C. BEAZLEY

Minister for Finance

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1.   Commencement

1.1   These Regulations are taken to have commenced on 1 September 1993.

2.   Amendment

2.1   The Superannuation (Continuing Contributions for Benefits) Regulations are amended as set out in these Regulations.

3.   Regulation 3A (Classes of persons to which section 14A of the Act applies)

3.1   Add at the end:

      “;  (k)   a class of persons each of whom is a person:

                          (i)   who, on 31 August 1993, was an eligible employee employed by Commonwealth Serum Laboratories Limited in its National Blood Group Reference Laboratory; and

                         (ii)   who, on 1 September 1993, became an employee of the New South Wales Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service in its National Blood Group Reference Laboratory; and

                       (iii)   who made a request, in writing, before 1 September 1993, to be treated as an eligible employee while an employee of the New South Wales Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service; and

                        (iv)   in relation to whom the New South Wales Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service made a request, in writing, before 1 September 1993, for the person to be treated as an eligible employee while an employee of that Service.”.

4.   Regulation 4 (When s. 14A no longer applies)

4.1   Add at the end:

           “(9)   Section 14A of the Act ceases to apply to a person in the class of persons mentioned in paragraph 3A (k) at the end of the first occurring of the following days:

             (a)   the day on which the person ceases to be an employee of the New South Wales Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service in its National Blood Group Reference Laboratory;

             (b)   the day immediately before the day on which the person becomes a casual or temporary part-time employee of that Service in its National Blood Group Reference Laboratory;

             (c)   the day immediately before the day on which the person becomes a member of a superannuation scheme applying to the person’s employment by that Service, other than:

                          (i)   the scheme provided for under the Act; or

                         (ii)   a scheme to which contributions are made in relation to the person only under the Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Act 1992;

             (d)   if that Service terminates its arrangements to make payments under section 159 of the Act in respect of the person—the last day to which the payments so made relate;

             (e)   if the Commonwealth ceases to provide financial assistance, under arrangements made with The Australian Red Cross Society New South Wales Division, for the administration of the National Blood Group Reference Laboratory—the last day to which the financial assistance relates.”.

5.   Schedule 1 (Modification of Act)

5.1   Subitem 2.1 (inserted subsection 159 (1A)):

Add at the end:

    “;  (h)     the New South Wales Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service.”.

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NOTES

1.   Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 4 February 1994.

2.   Statutory Rules 1981 No. 36 as amended by 1987 No. 290; 1989 Nos. 179 and 379; 1991 Nos. 97, 168, 446 (as amended by 1992 No. 213) and 465; 1992 Nos. 27, 213, 323, 428, 460; 1993 Nos. 3, 50 and 348.