Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Police Regulation Act 1958 - SECT 64B

Final salary for superannuation benefit purposes

64B. Final salary for superannuation benefit purposes



(1) Despite anything in this or any other Act, or in any regulations made
under any other Act, for the purposes of determining the amount of
superannuation benefits payable to a member of the force whose service is
terminated by resignation during the period for which that member remains on
probation for the rank to which he or she was most recently appointed, the
final salary of that member must be taken to be the salary applicable, on the
day before the resignation takes effect, to the previous rank of the member.

(2) In this section-

disability, in relation to a member of the force, means the inability of the
member, due to a continuing or recurring injury, disease or infirmity, to
perform his or her duties, or any other duties as directed by the Chief
Commissioner, for which he or she is suited by education, training or
experience, or for which he or she would be suited as a result of retraining
as certified by at least 2 medical practitioners registered under the
Health Professions Registration Act 2005;

previous rank, in relation to a member, means the rank of the member
immediately before his or her most recent promotion on probation, whether or
not his or her probationary appointment to that previous rank had been
confirmed;

resignation means the termination of service by a member of the force other
than by reason of death or disability.

Provision for indexation