Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations

SUPERANNUATION REGULATIONS - REG 7

(1)

The time within which an employee to whom subsection (1) or subsection (2) of section 20A of the Act applies may elect to contribute for additional units of pension in accordance with subsection (3) of that section is the period of 12 months after:

(a)

the date upon which his salary is increased or the date as from which his salary is increased, whichever is the later date; or

(b)

the date upon which the prescribed amount is increased, as the case requires.

(2)

It is a condition upon which an employee may make an election under subsection (3) of section 20A of the Act that the employee, within the period of 6 months after the date on which he makes the election or within such further period as the Board allows, satisfies the Board that he is not suffering from any physical or mental defect (not being a defect that, in the opinion of the Board, is the result of service of the employee as a member of the Forces as defined by subsection (2) of section 147 of the Act) likely to render him incapable of performing his duties before attaining the maximum age for retirement.