Parliamentary Salaries, Allowances and Superannuation Act 1968
7ASalary sacrifice
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7A Salary sacrifice
(1) A member may by notice in writing enter into an arrangement under which the member agrees to receive the whole or part of his or her total amount of future remuneration as non-salary benefits of an equivalent value.
(2) The notice must specify a date from which the arrangement is to take effect which must be the date on which the notice is given or a later date.
(3) A member may by notice in writing vary or revoke a notice he or she has given under subsection (1).
(4) The notice of variation or revocation must specify a date from which the variation or revocation is to take effect which must be the date on which the notice is given or a later date.
(5) A notice under this section must be given to—
(a) in relation to a person who is a member of the Legislative Assembly, the Clerk of the Legislative Assembly; and
(b) in relation to a person who is a member of the Legislative Council, the Clerk of the Legislative Council.
(6) This section does not apply to permit an arrangement under this section to salary sacrifice contributions—
S. 7A(6)(a) amended by No. 61/2013 s. 16(1).
(a) to the Scheme under Part 3; or
(b) to the chosen fund or default fund under Part 4.
(7) If, before the commencement of section 14 of the Salaries Legislation Amendment (Salary Sacrifice) Act 2008 (the 2008 Act), a member entered into an arrangement under which the member agreed to receive the whole or part of his or her total amount of salary as a member as non‑salary benefits of an equivalent value, that arrangement, by virtue of this subsection, has and is deemed always to have had full effect according to its tenor as if it had been authorised under this section.
(8) On and after the commencement of section 14 of the 2008 Act, an arrangement referred to in subsection (7) may only be varied or revoked in accordance with subsection (3).
(9) In subsection (1), non-salary benefits has the same meaning as it has in clauses 3(5) and 3(6) of Schedule 1A to the Public Administration Act 2004.
S. 7B inserted by No. 37/2011 s. 3.