STATUTORY RULES

1965 No. 182

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE SUPERANNUATION ACT 1922-1965.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Superannuation Act 1922-1965.

Dated this tenth

day of December, 1965.

R. G. Casey

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Harold Holt

Treasurer.

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Amendments of the Superannuation Regulations†

Manner of ascertaining salary for purposes of section 22.

1. Regulation 6 of the Superannuation Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(1.) For the purposes of paragraph (a) of sub-section (1.) of section 22 of the Act, the salary of an employee who is paid salary at a rate other than an annual rate of salary shall be ascertained, for the purposes of Division 2 of Part III. of the Act, by multiplying the weekly rate of salary of the employee by 52.”.

Amount specified for purpose of section 20 (3a.).

2. Regulation 6a of the Superannuation Regulations is repealed.

3.—(1.) Regulation 7 of the Superannuation Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Prescribed time and condition for purposes of section 20a.

“7.—(1.) The time within which an employee to whom sub-section (1.) or sub-section (2.) of section 20a of the Act applies may elect to contribute for additional units of pension in accordance with sub-section (3.) of that section is the period of 12 months after—

(a) the date upon which his salary is increased or the date as from which his salary is increased, whichever is the later date; or

(b) the date upon which the prescribed amount is increased,

as the case requires.

“(2.) It is a condition upon which an employee may make an election under sub-section (3.) of section 20a of the Act that the employee, within the period of 6 months after the date on which he makes the election or within such further period as the Board allows, satisfies the Board that he is not suffering from any physical or mental defect (not being a defect that, in the opinion of the Board, is the result of service of the employee as a

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1965.

† Statutory Rules 1960, No.68, as amended by Statutory Rules 1962 No. 14; 1963, Nos. 51 and 118; 1964, No. 73; and 1965, No. 5.

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member of the Forces as defined by sub-section (2.) of section 147 of the Act) likely to render him incapable of performing his duties before attaining the maximum age for retirement.”.

(2.) Notwithstanding the repeal of regulation 7 of the Superannuation Regulations by the last preceding sub-regulation, the repealed regulation continues to apply, after the commencement of these Regulations, to and in relation to an employee who, immediately before the commencement of the Superannuation Act 1965, was entitled under sub-section (8.) of section 20 of the Superannuation Act 1922-1963 to elect to contribute for additional units of pension.

4. Regulation 10 of the Superannuation Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Prescribed time for purposes of section 67 or 69.

“10. The prescribed time for the purposes of sub-section (2.) of section 67, or of sub-section (1.) of section 69, of the Act is—

(a) in the case of a person who is an employee within the meaning of section 4 of the Act—the period of 12 months after the date on which he becomes an employee; or

(b) in the case of a person who is to be deemed to be an employee within the meaning of section 4 of the Act by virtue of a direction under sub-section (4.), (5.) or (6.) of that section —the period of 12 months after the date as from which he is to be deemed to be such an employee.”.

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By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra