Fire Brigade (Administration) (Amendment) Act 1991 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Fire Brigade (Administration) (Amendment) Act 1991

No. 86 of 1991

An Act to amend the Fire Brigade (Administration) Act 1974

[Notified in ACT Gazette S155: 24 December  1991]

The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Fire Brigade (Administration) (Amendment) Act 1991.

Principal Act

2.  In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Fire Brigade (Administration) Act 1974.1

Substitution

3.  The heading to Division 2 of Part III of the Principal Act is omitted and the following heading substituted:

“Division 2—Service of Members”.

Insertion

4.  After section 24 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:

Retirement benefit

“24A.  (1)  Where a person—

(a)ceases to be a member of the Brigade pursuant to subsection 24 (1); and

(b)immediately before so ceasing was a contributor to the Superannuation Fund established under the Superannuation Act;

that person is entitled to a benefit of an amount ascertained in accordance with the formula A x B x 0.017 where—

(c)A is the final annual rate of salary of the person; and

(d)B is the number of completed years of continuous service with the Brigade.

“(2)  Where, prior to the person becoming a member of the Brigade, the person had—

(a)a relevant period of service that was continuous with his or her service with the Brigade; or

(b)2 or more relevant periods of service that were continuous with each other and with his or her service with the Brigade;

that relevant period of service or those relevant periods of service shall, for the purpose of paragraph (1) (d), be taken to be a continuous period of service with the Brigade.

“(3)  In this section—

‘final annual rate of salary’ has the same meaning as in the Superannuation Act;

‘relevant period of service’ means—

(a)a period of service with a body that performs, in a State or another Territory, functions similar to those of the Brigade; or

(b)a period of service with the Brigade or with a body that performed similar functions in the Territory before the establishment of the Brigade;

‘Superannuation Act’ means the Superannuation Act 1976 of the Commonwealth.”.

NOTE

1. Ordinance  No. 52, 1974 as amended by Nos. 4, 10 and 38, 1975; No. 46, 1978;  No. 38, 1980; No. 21, 1982; Nos. 3, 21 and 38, 1989.

[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 5 December 1991]

©  Australian Capital Territory 1991