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Staff Superannuation Statute 2007
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29 Election to contribute for increased supplementary benefits by eligible members promoted after attaining 40 years
29.1 An eligible member who, having attained the age of 40 years, is promoted after the date of commencement of the Amendment Statute to an office the appropriate pension in respect of which is greater than the appropriate pension in respect of the office that he or she held immediately before that promotion may, within 26 weeks after that promotion, make an election in writing:
(a) to contribute for increased supplementary benefits; or
(b) to continue to be an eligible member entitled to supplementary benefits as if the eligible member held the office that he or she held immediately before that promotion.
29.2 An eligible member who, in respect of one promotion to which subsection 29.1 applies, does not elect to contribute for increased supplementary benefits does not have the right to make an election under that subsection in respect of any subsequent promotion.
29.3 An eligible member, being an eligible member entitled to elect under subsection 29.1, who does not, within the period referred to in that subsection, elect to contribute for increased supplementary benefits is to be regarded as having elected to continue to be an eligible member entitled to supplementary benefits as if the eligible member held the office that he or she held immediately before he or she was promoted.
29.4 If:
(a) under subsection 27.5, the rules make provision for or in relation to the ascertainment of the appropriate pension in relation to each eligible member who holds a particular office; and
(b) by reason of the application of those provisions in relation to an eligible member after he or she has attained the age of 40 years, a greater appropriate pension would become the appropriate pension in relation to the eligible member on his or her retirement,
the eligible member is to be regarded as having been, for the purposes of this Part, promoted to an office in respect of which there is a greater appropriate pension, and subsections 29.1, 29.2 and 29.3 and subsection 27.8 apply, mutatis mutandis, to and in relation to the member.