New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PARLIAMENTARY CONTRIBUTORY SUPERANNUATION ACT 1971 - SECT 27

27 Minimum benefit

(1) Where the aggregate of instalments of pension and any other benefit paid or payable under this Part in respect of any member who ceased to be a member after the date of assent to the Parliamentary Contributory Superannuation (Amendment) Act 1981 is less than the amount to which his or her personal representative would have been entitled under section 22A (4) had he or she ceased to be a member in the circumstances specified in section 22A (4), the difference shall, as soon as practicable after the death of the member and the member’s spouse or de facto partner (if any) and after any pensions under section 23B in respect of the dependent children of the member cease to be payable, be paid out of the Fund to such person or persons as the trustees direct.

(2) A reference in subsection (1) to a member is, in the case of instalments of pension or other benefit paid or payable as determined under subsection (7) or (8) of section 23, a reference only to the member in respect of whom those instalments or that other benefit are or is paid or payable.