New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND OTHER AUTHORITIES (SUPERANNUATION) ACT 1927 - SECT 7C

7C Additional contributions to Provident Fund

(1) A permanent servant who at the commencement of the Local Government and Other Authorities (Superannuation) Amendment Act 1959 has attained the age of fifty-five years and is insured under the provisions of section 4 or sections 4 and 5 or is a permanent servant in respect of whom contributions are made to the Provident Fund or is so insured and is a permanent servant in respect of whom contributions are made as aforesaid may, within six months after such commencement or thereafter at such times as may be prescribed, request, in the prescribed manner, that contributions or additional contributions be made annually to the Provident Fund on his behalf of an amount which does not exceed:

(a) the difference between:

(i) any premium payable in respect of any such insurance and annual contribution made to the Provident Fund in respect of him, and

(ii) forty per centum of his salary for the time being, or

(b) eight hundred and sixty dollars,

whichever is the lesser.

(2) A permanent servant who by virtue of the operation of paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of section 7 is exempted from the obligation to effect insurance under section 4 may request, in the prescribed manner, that contributions be made to the Provident Fund on his behalf in respect of any number of units of or additional cover units of insurance of two hundred dollars each for which he would have been eligible if he had not been so exempted.
Any request under this subsection shall:

(a) in the case of a permanent servant who is at the commencement of the Local Government and Other Authorities (Superannuation) Amendment Act 1959 exempted from the obligation to effect insurance under section 4, be made within six months after such commencement or thereafter at such times as may be prescribed,

(b) in the case of a permanent servant who after such commencement becomes so exempted, be made within six months after the date upon which the provisions of this Act are applied to him or the date of his appointment, as the case may be, or thereafter at such times as may be prescribed.

(3) Any permanent servant:

(a) to whom the provisions of this Act are applied, or who is appointed as such, after the commencement of the Local Government and Other Authorities (Superannuation) Amendment Act 1959 and who is exempted from the obligation to effect insurance under section 4 by virtue of the operation of paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section 7, or

(b) who is exempted from the obligation to effect insurance under section 4 by virtue of the operation of paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section 7, or

(c) who being a female to whom the provisions of this Part apply by virtue of the operation of section 17F,

may request, in the prescribed manner, that additional annual contributions be made to the Provident Fund on his or her behalf of an amount which does not exceed:

(d) the difference between the annual contribution to the Provident Fund payable otherwise than pursuant to this subsection in respect of such permanent servant and fifteen per centum of such permanent servant’s salary for the time being, or

(e) eight hundred and sixty dollars,

whichever is the lesser.
Paragraph (b) shall not apply to and in respect of a permanent servant who may request that additional contributions be made annually to the Provident Fund on his behalf pursuant to subsection (1).
Any request by a permanent servant pursuant to paragraph (a) shall be made within six months after the date upon which the provisions of this Act are applied to him or the date of his appointment, as the case may be, or thereafter at such times as may be prescribed.
Any request by a permanent servant pursuant to paragraph (b) or (c) shall:

(i) if such permanent servant is exempted as referred to in the said paragraph (b), or is a permanent servant to whom the provisions of this Part apply as referred to in the said paragraph (c), at the commencement of the Local Government and Other Authorities (Superannuation) Amendment Act 1959 , be made within six months after such commencement or thereafter at such times as may be prescribed, or

(ii) if such permanent servant becomes so exempted or a permanent servant to whom the provisions of this Part so apply after such commencement, be made within six months after the date upon which the provisions of this Act are applied to him or her or the date of his or her appointment, as the case may be, or thereafter at such times as may be prescribed.