30Closure under Public Sector Superannuation Reform Act 1999 of contributory scheme remains in effect

30 Closure under Public Sector Superannuation Reform Act 1999 of contributory scheme remains in effect

(1)  The contributory scheme does not apply to an employee appointed or engaged on or after 15 May 1999.

(1A)  [Section 30 Subsection (1A) inserted by No. 54 of 2016, s. 89, Applied:31 Mar 2017] If –

(a) a person, on or after 15 May 1999, begins to hold an office (other than an excluded office) under a provision of an Act; and

(b) a provision of that Act, after the day on which this section commences, specifies that the holder of the office is an employee for the purposes of this Act; and

(c) immediately before beginning to hold the office, the person was a member of the contributory scheme –

the person did not, and does not, by reason only of beginning to hold that office, cease to be an employee to whom the contributory scheme applies.

(1B)  [Section 30 Subsection (1B) inserted by No. 54 of 2016, s. 89, Applied:31 Mar 2017] If –

(a) a person, on or after the day on which this section commences (the commencement day), begins to hold an excluded office under a provision of an Act; and

(b) a provision of that Act, after the commencement day, specifies that the holder of the office is an employee for the purposes of this Act; and

(c) immediately before beginning to hold the office, the person was a member of the contributory scheme –

the person ceases, by reason of beginning to hold that office, to be an employee to whom the contributory scheme applies.

(1C)  [Section 30 Subsection (1C) inserted by No. 54 of 2016, s. 89, Applied:31 Mar 2017] Nothing in subsection (1) , (1A) or (1B) is to be taken to affect a right, privilege, obligation or liability acquired, accrued or incurred in relation to an excluded office by a person if the person began, before the day on which this section commences, to hold that office.