Commonwealth Numbered Acts

AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL RAILWAYS COMMISSION ACT 1983 No. 140 of 1983 - SECT 45

45. (1) Where a transferred South Australian employee or a transferred
Tasmanian employee continues, notwithstanding his appointment to the Railway
Service, to be a contributor for State retirement benefits -

   (a)  the Commission may deduct from the salary or wages of the employee
amounts equal to the contributions payable by him from time to time
for those benefits and may pay the amounts so deducted to the
appropriate Superannuation Board; and

   (b)  the Commission may furnish to the appropriate Superannuation Board
        such information concerning the employee as the Board requests, being
        information relevant to the calculation of the contributions payable
        by him for those benefits or to the calculation of the
        State retirement benefits for which he has contributed.

(2) Where a transferred Tasmanian employee continues, notwithstanding his
appointment to the Railway Service, to be a public servant for the purposes of
the Public Servants' Retiring and Death Allowances Act 1925 of the State of
Tasmania, the Commission may furnish to the Treasurer of that State such
information concerning the employee as the Treasurer requests, being
information relevant to the calculation of the benefits payable to or in
respect of the employee under that Act.

(3) There shall be paid by the Commission to the Consolidated Revenue Fund, at
such times as the Minister for Finance determines, in respect of
transferred South Australian employees and transferred Tasmanian employees
referred to in sub-section (1) and transferred Tasmanian employees referred to
in sub-section (2), such amounts as the Minister for Finance determines in
respect of the future liability of the Commonwealth to make payments relating
to State retirement benefits in respect of those employees.

(4) In this section -

"appropriate Superannuation Board" means -

   (a)  in relation to a transferred South Australian employee - the
South Australian Superannuation Fund Board continued in
    existence, under the name "South Australian Superannuation

Board", by section 18 of the Superannuation Act 1974 of the
State of South Australia;

   (b)  in relation to a transferred Tasmanian employee who was,
immediately before his appointment to the Railway Service, a
contributor under the Superannuation Act 1938 of the State of
Tasmania - the Superannuation Fund Board established by
that Act; and

   (c)  in relation to a transferred Tasmanian employee who was,
immediately before his appointment to the Railway Service, a
contributor under the Retirement Benefits Act 1970 of the State of Tasmania -
the Retirement Benefits Fund Board established by that Act;

"State retirement benefits" means -

   (a)  in relation to a transferred South Australian employee -
benefits payable to or in respect of him under the
Superannuation Act 1974 of the State of South Australia; and

   (b)  in relation to a transferred Tasmanian employee - benefits
payable to or in respect of him under the Superannuation Act
1938, the Retirement Benefits Act 1970 or the Public Servants'
Retiring and Death Allowances Act 1925 of the State of
Tasmania.

(5) A reference in this section to an Act of a State is a reference to the Act
as amended and in force from time to time.