LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 2009 - SECT 290 Superannuation for local government employees transferred to new water entities

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 2009 - SECT 290

290 Superannuation for local government employees transferred to new water entities

(1) This section applies if employees of a local government are, or have been, transferred to a new water entity under—

(a) a transfer notice under the South East Queensland Water (Restructuring) Act 2007; or

(b) a transition document under the South-East Queensland Water (Distribution and Retail Restructuring) Act 2009.

Note—

Some employees to whom this section applies have, since the enactment of this section, been transferred to the Queensland Bulk Water Supply Authority under a regulation made under the South East Queensland Water (Restructuring) Act 2007, section 105 . The LG super scheme continues to apply to those employees—see section 300.

(2) Chapter 7, part 2 applies to the new water entity and the transferred employees.

(3) For applying chapter 7, part 2 to the new water entity and the transferred employees—

(a) the new water entity is taken to be a local government entity, but only in relation to its employment of the transferred employees; and

(b) a transferred employee is taken to be an eligible member; and

(c) despite section 219(2), a transferred employee continues to be a permanent employee if the transferred employee was a permanent employee immediately before the transfer.

(4) In this section—


"new water entity" means—

(a) an entity, other than the SEQ Water Grid Manager, established under the South East Queensland Water (Restructuring) Act 2007, section 6 (1); or

(b) a distributor-retailer under the South-East Queensland Water (Distribution and Retail Restructuring) Act 2009.

"transferred employee" means an employee mentioned in subsection (1).