Superannuation Regulations (Cth)

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STATUTORY RULES.

1930. No. 145.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE SUPERANNUATION ACT 1922-1930.

WHEREAS by section 82 of the SuperannuationAct 1922-1930, the Governor-General may, on the recommendation of the Superannuation Board, constituted by the said Act, make Regulations for carrying out or giving effect to the Act:

Now, therefore, the Superannuation Board recommends to the Governor-General that the following Regulations be made, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this twentieth day of November, 1930.

F. J. Ross, President, Superannuation

M. J. D. Page, Member, Board.

Chas. H. Wickens, Member,

Approved in Executive Council this ninth day of December, 1930.

SOMERS

Administering the Government of the

Commonwealth of Australia.

By His Excellency’s Command.

J. A. LYONS

Acting Treasurer.

 

Superannuation Regulations.

Short title.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Superannuation Regulations.

Interpretation.

2. In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears —

“The Act” means the SuperannuationAct 1922-1930.

Commencement of contributions.

3. Where under the Act an employee is required to contribute to the Fund from the date of the commencement of his employment, deductions from salary for the purpose of those contributions shall be first made on the first salary pay day occurring during his employment.

Election under section 12 (3).

4. The time within which an employee or pensioner to whom sub-section (3) of section 12 of the Act applies may elect to contribute for additional units of pension shall be twelve months from the 9th August, 1930, or twelve months from the date upon which his salary was increased as specified in that sub-section, whichever is the later.

Election under section 13 (2).

5. The time within which an employee may elect under sub-section (2) of section 13 of the Act to contribute for additional units or half units, shall be twelve months from the commencement of these Regulations, or twelve months from the commencement of his employment, whichever is the later.

Election under section 13 (4) (a).

6. The time within which a contributor to whom paragraph (a) of sub-section (4) of section 13 of the Act applies may increase the amount of his contribution, in accordance with that paragraph, shall be twelve months from the date upon which payment of salary at the increased rate is actually made.

Contributions where salary reduced.

7. Where the salary of a contributor is reduced from one salary-group to another salary-group, necessitating a reduction in the number of units for which he is contributing, such reduction shall take effect on and from the first pay day after the reduction of the salary.

Election under section 52(1).

8. The time within which an employee having rights under any other Act or State Act may elect under section 52 of the Act to come under the Act for the purpose of the “difference” as defined in sub-section (4) of that section, shall be twelve months from the date of commencement of these Regulations or twelve months from the commencement of his employment whichever is the later.

Election under section 52 (5).

9. The time within which an employee who has rights under any other Act or State Act, and who has elected under section 52 of the Act to come under the Act for the purpose of the “difference” may elect under sub-section (5) of that section, shall be twelve months from the date upon which payment of salary at the increased rate is actually made.

Election under section 53.

10. The time within which an employee may elect under section 53 of the Act to come under the Act for the limited purposes specified in sub-section (1) of that section, shall be twelve months from the commencement of these Regulations or twelve months from the commencement of his employment whichever is the later.

Contributions under section 53.

11. The contributions which shall be paid by an employee in respect of a pension under section 53 of the Act, shall be in accordance with the table of contributions set out in Schedule I. to these Regulations.

Contributions by officers. Section 60H (2).

12. The contributions which shall be paid by an officer who is a contributor under Part IVa. of the Act in respect of a pension under section 60j of the Act, shall be in accordance with the table of contributions set out in Schedule II. to these Regulations.

Deduction of contributions.

13.—(1.) The contributions deducted from the salaries of contributors shall be separately shown in the salary register and the pay sheets of the respective Departments in which the contributors are employed.

(2.) Where a contribution includes a fraction of a penny amounting to a halfpenny or more, the next higher penny shall be deducted.

Contributions to be deducted fortnightly.

14.—(1.) Deductions made for the purposes of the Act and these Regulations shall be paid each fortnight to the Collector or Receiver of Public Moneys, to whom the collections of the Department are usually paid, for credit to the Fund.

(2.) The total of each fortnightly payment of contributions shall be balanced or reconciled with the total pension deductions shown in the Salary Registers for the relative fortnight.

Payment of pensions.

15.—(1.) Pensions granted in pursuance of the Act shall be paid by the Sub-Treasury in the State in which the pensioner resides.

(2.) Pensions shall be paid fortnightly on the Friday of each fortnight which alternates with the Friday on which Public Service salaries are paid.

Pensions Register.

16. A Pensions Register, in card form, shall be kept in each Sub-Treasury, and in the event of a pensioner removing to another State, the pensioner’s card shall be transferred to the Sub-Treasury in that State.

Method of payment of pension.

17. — (1.) Pensioners shall not be required to submit accounts for payment, but claims shall be prepared in the Sub-Treasury each fortnight.

(2.) Pensions shall be paid by means of non-negotiable cheques made payable to Order.

Definition of “one day’s pension”.

 

18. One day’s pension shall be one-fourteenth of the fortnightly pension.

Payment of Commonwealth’s contribution.

19. Immediately after each pension pay day, the proportion of pensions and refunds of contributions payable by the Commonwealth shall be paid to the Fund by the Sub-Treasury in each State.

Prescribed authority under section 50.

20. The prescribed authority who shall be informed in accordance with section 50 of the Act of the restoration of the health of a pensioner to whom a pension under section 30, 37, 60n or 60o is being paid shall be the principal officer administering the Act under which the pensioner was employed at the date of his retirement.

Fee to medical officer for report under section 77

21. The fee payable to a medical officer appointed under section 77 of the Act for the purpose of reporting upon a case in which a question of invalidity or physical or mental incapacity arises, shall be £2 2s.

Actuarial equivalents section 82 (b).

22. — (1.) The data in respect of mortality, conjugal condition, dependent children, and invalidity to be employed in determining actuarial equivalents for the purposes of the Act shall be as follows:—

Mortality—Am and Af Life Tables based on mortality experience for Australia, 1901-10.

Conjugal condition—Tables relating to conjugal conditions contained in the Commonwealth Statistician’s Report on the Australian Census of 1911.

Dependent children—Tables relating to dependent children contained in the Commonwealth Statistician’s Report on the Australian Census of 1911.

Invalidity—Experience of the New South Wales Railway and Tramway Services (1891 to 1906) in so far as such experience is, in the opinion of the Staff Actuary of the Board, applicable.

(2.) The rate of interest to be employed in determining actuarial equivalents for the purposes of the Act shall be 4 per centum per annum.

(3.) Where benefits payable in the future are to be substituted for others to which an employee is entitled, provision shall be made—

(a) for invalidity pension equal in amount to superannuation benefit;

(b) for widow’s pension equal to one-half of amount of superannuation benefit; and

(c) for children’s benefits of £13 per annum in respect of each child.

False information Section 82 (d)

23. Any employee or pensioner or other person who in any information required or given in connexion with any matter or thing, under the Act or these Regulations, makes any statement or declaration which is false, shall be guilty of an offence.

Penalty: Ten pounds.

Repeal.

24. The Superannuation Regulations (being Statutory Rules 1926, No. 188 as amended by Statutory Rules 1928, No. 24) are repealed as from the commencement of these Regulations.

 

THE SCHEDULES.

SCHEDULE I.

Section 53 –– Fortnightly Contributions for Limited Pensions.

Age next Birthday.

Widow’s Pensions (Two Units).

Widow’s Pension (Two Units) and Children’s Pension (Half Unit each Child).

Age next Birthday.

Widow’s pensions (Two units).

Widow’s Pension (Two Units) and Children’s Pension (Half Unit each).

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SCHEDULE II.

Section 60h (2.)—Rates of Contributions to be paid fortnightly by Air officers.

Age next Birthday.

(1.)

First £52 Pension to Contributor upon Invalidity. (2.)

Subsequent £52 pension to Contributor, (3.)

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By Authority: H. J. Green, Government Printer, Canberra.

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