SUPERANNUATION ACT 1976

DECLARATION

I, Eric Laidlaw Robinson, Minister of State for Post and

Telecommunications, acting for and on behalf of the Treasurer:-

(a) in pursuance of sub-section 134(1) of the Superannuation Act

1976, declare the University of Newcastle Staff Superannuation Scheme to be an eligible superannuation scheme for the purposes

of Division 3 of Part IX of that Act.

(b) in pursuance of sub-section 145(11) of the Superannuation Act 1976, declare the University of Newcastle Staff Superannuation Scheme to be an approved superannuation scheme for the purposes of section 145 of that Act;    and

(c) specify the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and

seventy six as the day on which this declaration is deemed to

have come into force.

Dated this 14th   day of     June 1977

Eric L. Robinson