36Police officers may elect to relinquish cover for additional benefit—the Act, s 46AK(1)(a)

36 Police officers may elect to relinquish cover for additional benefit—the Act, s 46AK(1)(a)

36 Police officers may elect to relinquish cover for additional benefit—the Act, s 46AK(1)(a)

(1) A police officer who was not a police officer immediately before 2 March 2012 may elect to relinquish cover for the additional benefit within 3 months after the day on which the police officer became a police officer.

(2) Despite the Act, section 22, the following provisions apply to a prescribed police officer—

(a) the police officer is not liable to pay the additional benefit levy for a subsequent period during which the police officer is not covered for the additional benefit, and

(b) STC must not provide the additional benefit cover to the police officer on and from the date the Commissioner of Police advises STC is the first day on which the police officer is covered for death or disability under an approved death and disability insurance policy.

(3) The Commissioner of Police may, by written notice to STC, extend the period within which a police officer may elect to relinquish cover for the additional benefit.

(4) In this section—

prescribed police officer means a police officer who—

(a) elects to relinquish cover for the additional benefit in accordance with this section, or

(b) elected to relinquish cover for the additional benefit in accordance with—

(i) the State Authorities Superannuation Regulation 2015, section 37, or

(ii) the State Authorities Superannuation Regulation 2010, section 39.