21Eligible employees and contributors

21 Eligible employees and contributors

21 Eligible employees and contributors

The following persons are eligible to exercise a transfer option:

(a) a Category 1 elector—that is, a person who, on the appointed day, was (or, after the appointed day, became) a contributor to the State Superannuation Scheme or to the State Authorities Superannuation Scheme and who, in accordance with clause 23, is taken to have transferred employment,

(b) a Category 2 elector—a person who, on the appointed day, was (or, after the appointed day, became) a contributor to Division B or D of the local government superannuation scheme and who, in accordance with clause 24, is taken to have transferred employment,

(c) a Category 3 elector—a person who, on or after the appointed day, held deferred benefits in both the State Superannuation Scheme and the State Authorities Non-contributory Superannuation Scheme in relation to the same period of employment and who, in accordance with clause 25, is taken to have transferred employment,

(d) a Category 4 elector—a person who, on or after the appointed day, held deferred benefits in both the State Authorities Superannuation Scheme and the State Authorities Non-contributory Superannuation Scheme in relation to the same period of employment and who, in accordance with clause 26, is taken to have transferred employment,

(e) a Category 5 elector—a person who, on or after the appointed day, held deferred benefits in each of Divisions B and C of the local government superannuation scheme in relation to the same period of employment and who, in accordance with clause 27, is taken to have transferred employment,

(f) a Category 6 elector—a person who, on or after the appointed day, held deferred benefits in each of Divisions C and D of the local government superannuation scheme in relation to the same period of employment and who, in accordance with clause 28, is taken to have transferred employment,

(g) a Category 7 elector—a person who, on or after 1 July 1997, was a contributor to the Police Superannuation Scheme and who, in accordance with clause 28A, is taken to have transferred employment.

Note—

This clause allows (subject to the employment continuity restrictions imposed by Division 3):

(a) transfers from STC schemes to the local government superannuation scheme by a member of an STC scheme who leaves a public sector employer prescribed for the purposes of the relevant STC scheme to take up employment with a local government employer, and