Parliamentary Superannuation Act Amendment Act 1954 (WA)

No. 69.] Parliamentary Superannuation. [1954.

PARLIAMENTARY SUPERANNUATION.

3° Elizabeth II., No. LXIX.

No. 69 of 1954.

AN ACT to amend the Parliamentary Super-

annuation Act, 1948-1953.

[Assented to 30th December, 1954.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

snort title

and citation. 1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Parliamen-

tary Superannuation Act Amendment Act, 1954.

(2) In this Act, the Parliamentary Superannua-

tion Act, 1948-1953,

Act No. 60 of 1948 as amended by Acts Nos. 32 of 1950, 43 of 1951 and 52 of 1953,

is referred to as the principal Act.

1954.] Parliamentary Superannuation. [No. 69. (3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Parliamentary Superannuation Act, 1948-1954.

2. Section ten of the principal Act is amended— ail!	amended.
Cf. No. 43 of

(a)

by adding after the word, "annum" being 195/, s. 4 (a). "until the thirty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-four, and thereafter every member shall contribute to the Fund at the rate of seventy-eight pounds per annum"; and

(b) by adding after the word, "annum" in line Cf. No. 43 of 1951, 8.4 (b).

three of subsection (3), the words, "until the thirty-first day of December, one thous- and nine hundred and fifty-four, and thereafter an amount of six thousand two hundred and forty pounds per annum".

S. 11

3. Section eleven of the principal Act is amended

amended.

Cf. No. 32 of

(a)	by adding after the word, "Act" in line one	1950, s. 3; No. 43 of 1951,
of subsection (2), the words, "in general	s. 5; and No. 52 of 1953,
and to subsection (2a) of this section in	s. 3.
particular"; and
(b)	by adding after subsection (2), the following subsection:

(2a) Where loss of membership occurs after the thirty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-four, the rates of pension specified in subsection (2) of this section are increased by fifty per centum.

4. Section fourteen of the principal Act is amended T . ',goaded.

by substituting for the passage, "three hundred and twelve pounds (£312)" in lines eighteen and nine- teen, the words, "five hundred and forty-six pounds".

No. 69.] Parliamentary Superannuation. [1954.

S. 17A

added. 5. The following section is added to the principal

Act-

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moneys	17A. Where money payable under this Act is not claimed for a period of six years from the day when it became so payable, the money, by virtue of this section and notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act, remains part of the Fund.
remain in
Fund.