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Government Sector Audit Act 1983
7Preservation of rights of Auditor-General previously public servant etc
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#### 7 Preservation of rights of Auditor-General previously public servant etc
7 Preservation of rights of Auditor-General previously public servant etc
> > (1) In this clause—
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> > statutory body means any body declared under subclause (6) to be a statutory body for the purposes of this clause.
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> > superannuation scheme means a scheme, fund or arrangement under which any superannuation or retirement benefits are provided and which is established by or under any Act.
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> > (2) Subject to subclause (3) and to the terms of appointment, where the Auditor-General was, immediately before being appointed as Auditor-General—
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> > > (a) an officer of the Public Service or the Teaching Service,
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> > > (b) a contributor to a superannuation scheme,
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> > > (c) an officer employed by a statutory body, or
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> > > (d) a person in respect of whom provision was made by any Act for the retention of any rights accrued or accruing to the person as an officer or employee,
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> > he or she—
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> > > (e) shall retain any rights accrued or accruing to him or her as such an officer, contributor or person,
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> > > (f) may continue to contribute to any superannuation scheme to which he or she was a contributor immediately before being appointed as Auditor-General, and
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> > > (g) shall be entitled to receive any deferred or extended leave and any payment, pension or gratuity,
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> > as if he or she had continued to be such an officer, contributor or person during his or her service as Auditor-General, and—
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> > > (h) his or her service as Auditor-General shall be deemed to be service as an officer or employee for the purpose of any law under which those rights accrued or were accruing, under which he or she continues to contribute or by which that entitlement is conferred, and
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> > > (i) he or she shall be deemed to be an officer or employee, and the Government of New South Wales shall be deemed to be the employer, for the purpose of the superannuation scheme to which he or she is entitled to contribute under this section.
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> > (3) If the Auditor-General would, but for this subclause, be entitled under subclause (2) to contribute to a superannuation scheme or to receive any payment, pension or gratuity under that scheme, he or she shall not be so entitled upon becoming (whether upon appointment as Auditor-General or at any later time while holding office as Auditor-General) a contributor to any other superannuation scheme, and the provisions of subclause (2) (i) cease to apply to or in respect of him or her and the Government of New South Wales in any case where he or she becomes a contributor to such another superannuation scheme.
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> > (4) Subclause (3) does not prevent the payment to the Auditor-General upon his or her ceasing to be a contributor to a superannuation scheme of such amount as would have been payable to him or her if he or she had ceased, by reason of resignation, to be an officer or employee for the purposes of that scheme.
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> > (5) The Auditor-General shall not, in respect of the same period of service, be entitled to claim a benefit under this Act and another Act.
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> > (6) The Governor may, by proclamation published in the Gazette, declare any body constituted by or under any Act to be a statutory body for the purposes of this clause.