{"id":"C1978L00029","name":"Superannuation (Former Australian Legal Aid Office Staff) Regulations","slug":"superannuation-former-australian-legal-aid-office-staff-regulations","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"29 of 1978","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":25249,"registerId":"commonwealth-C1978L00029-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-01","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Superannuation (Former Australian Legal Aid Office Staff) Regulations","content":"![Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia](image.001.jpeg)\n\nStatutory Rules\n\n1978 No. 29\n\nREGULATIONS UNDER THE SUPERANNUATION ACT 1976\\*\n\nI, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Superannuation Act 1976.\n\nDated this twenty-eighth day of February 1978.\n\nZELMAN COWEN\n\nGovernor-General\n\nBy His Excellency’s Command,\n\nERIC ROBINSON\n\nMinister of State for Finance\n\n—————\n\nSUPERANNUATION (FORMER AUSTRALIAN LEGAL AID OFFICE STAFF) REGULATIONS\n\nCitation\n\n1\\. These Regulations may be cited as the Superannuation (Former Australian Legal Aid Office Staff) Regulations.\n\nInterpretation\n\n2\\. In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears—\n\n“ State Fund ” means a fund or account established under the law of a State to provide superannuation or other similar benefits for persons employed in the Public Service or any other service of that State;\n\n“ the Act ” means the Superannuation Act 1976.\n\nFormer Australian Legal Aid Office staff members who become contributors to State superannuation funds\n\n3. (1) Section 14a. of the Act does not apply to persons who, upon becoming eligible persons or approved persons for the purposes of Part IV of the Commonwealth Legal Aid Commission Act 1977, become contributors to a State Fund.\n\n(2) Where—\n\n(a) a person to whom section 14a of the Act applies becomes a contributor to a State Fund; and\n\n(b) that section would, but for this sub-regulation, continue to apply to him upon his so becoming such a contributor,\n\nthat section ceases to apply to him at the time that he becomes a contributor to the State Fund.\n\n\\* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 6 March 1978.","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":2210},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The regulations remain tightly focused on their original 1978 purpose: preventing dual superannuation coverage for Australian Legal Aid Office staff transitioning to State employment. No expansion of scope detected."},"complexity_factors":["Only 2 defined terms ('State Fund' and 'the Act')","Single, narrow subject matter affecting a specific cohort of employees from the 1970s","Simple conditional logic (direct carve-out with no nesting)","No schedules, tables, or subsidiary instruments","Just 3 short regulations total"],"plain_english_summary":"This regulation sorts out superannuation (retirement savings) for people who used to work for the Australian Legal Aid Office.\n\n**What it does**\nWhen these former staff members moved to State-based legal aid services and joined State government superannuation funds, this regulation ensures they are no longer covered by the Commonwealth superannuation scheme (specifically **section 14A** of the *Superannuation Act 1976*).\n\n**Why it matters**\nWithout this rule, these employees could have been caught between two systems—potentially accumulating benefits under both Commonwealth and State schemes simultaneously, or facing confusion about which rules applied to them. The regulation creates a clean break: once you join a State fund, the Commonwealth rules stop applying.\n\n**Who it affects**\n- Former staff of the Australian Legal Aid Office\n- Who became eligible under the *Commonwealth Legal Aid Commission Act 1977*\n- And started contributing to a State government superannuation fund"}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/superannuation-former-australian-legal-aid-office-staff-regulations","history":"/api/acts/superannuation-former-australian-legal-aid-office-staff-regulations/history","analysis":"/api/acts/superannuation-former-australian-legal-aid-office-staff-regulations/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/superannuation-former-australian-legal-aid-office-staff-regulations/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/superannuation-former-australian-legal-aid-office-staff-regulations/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/superannuation-former-australian-legal-aid-office-staff-regulations/documents"}}