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This determination repeals the Veterans' Entitlements (Actuarial Certificate—Life Expectancy Income Stream Guidelines) Determination 2013 and the Veterans’ Entitlements (Actuarial Certificate-Lifetime Income Stream Guidelines) Determination 2013 consolidating the 2013 instruments into one new instrument. The specified classes and guidelines are the same for both lifetime and life expectancy income streams.
Administered by: Veterans' Affairs
Registered 14 Sep 2023

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Veterans’ Entitlements (Actuarial Certificates – Lifetime Income Stream and Life Expectancy Income Stream Guidelines) Determination 2023

The Repatriation Commission makes the following instrument.

 

Dated               5 September 2023                   

 

 

The Seal of the Repatriation Commission was affixed hereto in the presence of:

 

 

Alison Frame

 

 

Kate Pope

 

PSM

President

 

Deputy President

 

 

 

 

 

 

Glen Ferrarotto

 

 

Gwen Cherne

Acting Commissioner

 

Commissioner

 

 

 

 


1  Name

                   This instrument is the Veterans’ Entitlements (Actuarial Certificates – Lifetime Income Stream and Life Expectancy Income Stream Guidelines) Determination 2023.                 

2  Commencement

This instrument commences on the day after it is registered.

3  Authority

                   This instrument is made under sections 5JA and 5JB of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986.

4  Interpretation

                   In this instrument:

Act means the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986.

annuity backed self managed superannuation fund means a self managed superannuation fund with an income stream that is fully backed by an annuity sourced from a life insurance company.

annuity backed small APRA fund means a small APRA fund with an income stream that is fully backed by an annuity sourced from a life insurance company.

life insurance company has the same meaning as in subsection 10(1) of the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993.

self managed superannuation fund has the same meaning as in section 17A of the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993.

small APRA fund has the same meaning as in subsection 1017BB(6) of the Corporations Act 2001.

Note:   Terms used in this instrument have the same meaning as they do in the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986. For example, the term Commission is defined in that Act.

Schedules

                   Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.  

Classes of provider

                   For paragraphs 5JA(1)(b) and 5JB(1A)(b) of the Act, each of the following is a specified class of provider:

                     (a)  self managed superannuation fund income stream providers, other than providers of income streams from annuity backed self managed superannuation funds;

                     (b)  small APRA fund income stream providers, other than providers of income streams from annuity backed small APRA funds.

7  Guidelines

                   The Commission must take each of the following matters into account when determining whether an actuarial certificate is in force:

                     (a)  whether the certificate states that it was prepared in accordance with the Actuaries Institute Australia Professional Standard 410 (Statements of Opinion Relating to Defined Benefit Pensions) as in force at the date of commencement of this instrument;        

                     (b)  whether the certificate was:

                              (i)  certified no later than 26 weeks after the start of the financial year to which it relates; and

                             (ii)  provided to the Commission no later than 3 weeks after the end of the 26 week period mentioned in subparagraph (i);

                     (c)  whether the certificate states a period during which certificate is in force.

 

Schedule 1—Repeals

Veterans’ Entitlements (Actuarial Certificate─Lifetime Income Stream Guidelines) Determination 2013

1          The whole of the instrument

Repeal the instrument.

Veterans’ Entitlements (Actuarial Certificate─Life Expectancy Income Stream Guidelines) Determination 2013

2          The whole of the instrument

Repeal the instrument.