Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) In this Part,
unless the contrary intention appears —
basic pension in relation to a member who has
contributed to the scheme for not less than 7 years, means the amount
calculated at the rate of the specified basic percentage of the basic salary
payable to the member immediately before he ceased to be a member, together
with a further specified percentage of that basic salary for each completed
period of one month, up to the specified maximum number of such periods, in
excess of that 7 years for which the member has duly contributed to the
scheme; and
specified means specified in a determination made
under the Salaries and Allowances Act 1975 .
(2) Subject to
section 20(2) a reference in this Part, however expressed, to a period
for which a person made contributions to the scheme means —
(a) any
period for which the person made contributions under section 11(1); and
(b) any
period for which the person made contributions to the Fund —
(i)
under the repealed Act;
(ii)
maintained under the Members of Parliament Fund
Act 1941 4 ; or
(iii)
maintained under this Act before the commencement of
the Acts Amendment (Parliamentary Superannuation) Act 1989 1 ,
and includes, where a
person has made contributions in respect of 2 or more separated periods
of service as a member, every period for which he so contributed, irrespective
of any pension, refund of contributions with interest or other benefit which
he received upon ceasing to be a member at the termination of any of those
periods of service as a member.
(3) A reference in
this Part to payment of an amount to or into the scheme is, in respect of a
payment made or required to be made after the commencement of the Acts
Amendment (Parliamentary Superannuation) Act 1989 1 , a reference to
payment of that amount to the Consolidated Account.
[Section 13 amended by No. 94 of 1975
s. 5; No. 54 of 1980 s. 5; No. 58 of 1986 s. 6;
No. 31 of 1989 s. 9; No. 6 of 1993 s. 11; No. 77 of
2006 s. 4.]