State Authorities Superannuation (State Public Service Superannuation Scheme Transfer) (Savings and Transitional) Regulation 1989
4Transfer of contributors under earlier Act
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4 Transfer of contributors under earlier Act
4 Transfer of contributors under earlier Act
(1) An employee who, immediately before 1 April 1989, was a contributor to the earlier Fund is to be taken to have made an election under section 19 (1) of the current Act (election to contribute to the Fund), effective on that date, to contribute to the current Fund.
(2) For the purposes of subclause (1), section 19 of the current Act is to be read as if subsections (2), (3), (4), (6) and (7) of that section were omitted.
(3) If an employee has become a contributor in accordance with an election taken to have been made under section 19 (1) of the current Act:
(a) the employee ceases to be a contributor to the earlier Fund, and
(b) a benefit under the earlier Act is not payable to or in relation to the contributor.
(4) An application under section 20 of the current Act (additional benefit) may, subject to that section, be made at any time by an employee who has become a contributor in accordance with this clause.