Government Employees Superannuation (General) Amendment Regulations 1998 (WA)

23 October 1998] GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 5867

SUPERANNUATION BOARD

SI)301*

Government Employees Superannuation Act 1987

For amendments to 12 October 1998 see 1997 Index to
Legislation of Western Australia, Table 4, p. 112.]

Government Employees Superannuation (General) Amendment Regulations 1998

Made by the deputy of the Governor in Executive Council.

1.     Citation

These regulations may be cited as the Government Employees
Superannuation (General) Amendment Regulations 1998.

2.     The regulations amended

The amendments in these regulations are to the Government
Employees Superannuation (General) Regulations 1992*.
[* Published in Gazette 26 June 1992, pp. 2675-7.

5868 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 123 October 1998

3. Regulation 3A inserted
After regulation 3 the following regulation is inserted -

66  

3A.	Number of hours prescribed for section 17C(2)(a)
For the purposes of section 1 7C(2)(a) of the Act the number of hours prescribed is one.

4.           Regulation 4 replaced

Regulation 4 is repealed and the following regulation is inserted instead -

66  

4.	Cessation of contributory membership, part-time employees
(1)	The standard prescribed for the purposes of section 17C(3) of the Act is that the number of hours worked by the member in each week must not fall below one.
(2)	During a period that the member is on leave of absence, the member is taken to work for the same number of hours as he or she would work if not on leave.

5.           Regulation 7 amended

Regulation 7 is amended by deleting "section 37(2)(c)" and inserting instead -

66 section 13C(4) ".

6. Regulation 7A inserted
After regulation 7 the following regulation is inserted -

7A.	Circumstances prescribed for section 38(1)(e)
(1)	For the purposes of section 38(1)(e) of the Act, a prescribed circumstance occurs if the member or former member -

(a)	attains the age of 55 years and is then working for less than 10 hours per week as an employee of an employer; or
(b)	having attained the age of 55 years works for less than 10 hours per week as an employee of an employer.

(2) If the member or former member is in more than one
employment, the references in subregulation (1)(a) and
(b) to the number of hours per week worked are
references to the total number of hours worked by that
person in all the separate capacities that the person has
under section 4B of the Act.

23 October 19981 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 5869

7.       Regulation 9 amended

Regulation 9(1) is amended as follows:

(a) by deleting the full stop after paragraph (b) and inserting

a semicolon;

(b) after paragraph (b) by inserting the following

paragraph —

44

(c)	judges or other persons with an entitlement to
or an expectation of a pension under the Judges' Salaries and Pensions Act 1950.

By Command of the deputy of the Governor,

M. C. WAUCHOPE, Clerk of the Executive Council.