27AKReduction of benefits of employee spouses

27AK Reduction of benefits of employee spouses

27AK Reduction of benefits of employee spouses

(1) STC may reduce the amount of any benefit payable under this Act to or in respect of an employee spouse (or a spouse or de facto partner of an employee spouse) if a family law superannuation entitlement is paid or payable to or in respect of the non-employee spouse under the family law superannuation legislation or this Part or the regulations.

(2) A preserved or deferred benefit may be reduced under this section.

(3) The benefit is to be reduced in accordance with the regulations and any applicable provisions of the family law superannuation legislation.

s 27AK: Ins 2003 No 77, Sch 10 [7].