New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND OTHER AUTHORITIES (SUPERANNUATION) ACT 1927 - SECT 6

6 Payment of premiums

(1) Where a permanent servant of a council effects a policy of insurance in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Act:

(a) the board shall pay the premiums to the insurance company concerned, and the council for the time being employing him shall make contributions to the board equal to those premiums,

(b) contributions payable under paragraph (a) by a council shall, in respect of any period commencing on or after 1 April 1977, be calculated on a monthly basis, and the contributions payable in respect of a month shall be paid to the board within 7 days after the last day of the month to which they relate,

(c) contributions payable under paragraph (a) by a council in respect of a person who was a permanent servant of the council for a part, but not the whole, of a month are payable only for that part of the month during which he was a permanent servant of the council, and, for the purposes of this paragraph, contributions shall be calculated on a daily basis,

(d) the board may in any particular case charge interest at a rate to be prescribed calculated on a daily basis on any contribution not paid within the period prescribed by this Part.
Such interest shall be recoverable by the board in the same way in which premiums are recoverable.
Such interest shall not be chargeable by the council against any permanent servant,

(e) the board may in the case of any permanent servant whom it deems and while it deems such permanent servant to be only temporarily out of employment pay any premiums payable for the purpose of retaining any existing insurance of such permanent servant, if such permanent servant shall so request.
In such case interest shall be payable by such permanent servant upon all moneys paid by the board, calculated at the rate to be prescribed.
All such moneys and interest shall be recoverable by the board from such permanent servant in the same manner as any moneys payable by a council to the board hereunder.
All such moneys may be paid by the board and until repayment shall with the interest thereon be a charge upon the policy and all moneys to be received thereunder.
The board may include any moneys payable to it under this paragraph in any notice for payment of contribution sent by it to any council in whose employment such permanent servant may be thereafter and the same shall be deducted by it as prescribed from any salary or other moneys payable by the council to the said servant and paid to the board.

(2) Every permanent servant of a council in respect of whom the council shall have paid any such contribution shall be liable to the council for so much thereof as shall remain after deducting the council’s quota calculated as hereinafter provided.
The council may deduct such residue or any part thereof from any sum which may be or may become due by the council to such permanent servant by way of salary or otherwise by periodical instalments as prescribed.
The council may sue for and recover any balance due by any permanent servant in respect of contributions paid by the council under this section which it may not have recovered by deductions from salary or otherwise as aforesaid.

(4) The council’s quota of the contribution payable in respect of the compulsory cover provided for in section 4 and of the contribution payable in respect of the optional cover units provided for in section 5 shall be one moiety of each such contribution:
Provided that where optional cover units have been effected before the commencement of the Local Government (Superannuation) Amendment Act 1940 or where optional cover units in respect of which application has been made to the board before such commencement are effected after such commencement the council’s quota for the contribution payable in respect thereof shall be a proportion of that contribution corresponding to the ratio that the past service factor bears to the total service factor.

(5) The board shall pay the amounts received by it for premiums into a special account with a bank, building society or credit union to be called “The Local Government (Servants) Insurance Account”.
From such account the board shall pay the premiums on the policies of insurance effected under section 4.
Cheques drawn on this account by the board shall be signed as prescribed.

(6) In subsection (1), "month" has the meaning ascribed to that expression by section 15AL.