1Superannuation (Former Australian Legal Aid Office Staff) Regulations

Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia

Statutory Rules

1978 No. 29

REGULATIONS UNDER THE SUPERANNUATION ACT 1976*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Superannuation Act 1976.

Dated this twenty-eighth day of February 1978.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

ERIC ROBINSON

Minister of State for Finance

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SUPERANNUATION (FORMER AUSTRALIAN LEGAL AID OFFICE STAFF) REGULATIONS

Citation

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Superannuation (Former Australian Legal Aid Office Staff) Regulations.

Interpretation

2. In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears—

“ State Fund ” means a fund or account established under the law of a State to provide superannuation or other similar benefits for persons employed in the Public Service or any other service of that State;

“ the Act ” means the Superannuation Act 1976.

Former Australian Legal Aid Office staff members who become contributors to State superannuation funds

3. (1) Section 14a. of the Act does not apply to persons who, upon becoming eligible persons or approved persons for the purposes of Part IV of the Commonwealth Legal Aid Commission Act 1977, become contributors to a State Fund.

(2) Where—

(a) a person to whom section 14a of the Act applies becomes a contributor to a State Fund; and

(b) that section would, but for this sub-regulation, continue to apply to him upon his so becoming such a contributor,

that section ceases to apply to him at the time that he becomes a contributor to the State Fund.

* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 6 March 1978.