Superannuation (Eligible Employees) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1978 No. 15

REGULATION UNDER THE SUPERANNUATION ACT 1976*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Superannuation Act 1976.

Dated this ninth day of February 1978.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

ERIC ROBINSON

Minister of State for Finance

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AMENDMENT OF THE SUPERANNUATION (ELIGIBLE EMPLOYEES) REGULATIONS 

Certain employees not to be eligible employees

Regulation 4 of the Superannuation (Eligible Employees) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following paragraphs:

“ (e) officers of the Australian National Railways Commission appointed in accordance with section 13 of the Railways Agreement (South Australia) Act 1975 who are, for the purposes of the Superannuation Act, 1974 of the State of South Australia as amended and in force from time to time, prescribed contributors within the meaning of section 11a of that Act as so amended and in force;

“ (f) officers of the Australian National Railways Commission appointed in accordance with section 13 of the Railways Agreement (South Australia) Act 1975 who—

(i) immediately before the date on which they were so appointed were not, for the purposes of the Superannuation Act, 1974 of the State of South Australia as amended and in force at that time,

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 13 February 1978.

Statutory Rules 1976, No. 140 as amended by Statutory Rules 1977, Nos. 157.

contributors to the Fund or to the Provident Account within the meaning of that Act as so amended and in force; and

(ii) have not requested that they be treated as eligible employees;

“ (g) officers of the Australian National Railways Commission appointed in accordance with section 11 of the Railways (Tasmania) Act 1975 who make an election under section 3 of the Railways (Transfer to Commonwealth) (Retirement Benefits) Act 1977 of the State of Tasmania as amended and in force at the relevant time or are deemed by that Act as so amended and in force to have made an election under that section;

“ (h) officers of the Australian National Railways Commission appointed in accordance with section 11 of the Railways (Tasmania) Act 1975 who—

(i) immediately before the date on which their appointment became effective were not contributors for the purposes of the Superannuation Act 1938 of the State of Tasmania as amended and in force at that time or the Retirement Benefits Act 1970 of that State as amended and in force at that time;

(ii) do not make an election under section 3 of the Railways (Transfer to Commonwealth) (Retirement Benefits) Act 1977 of the State of Tasmania as amended and in force from time to time; and

(iii) have not requested that they be treated as eligible employees.”.