Western Australian Consolidated Acts

SUPERANNUATION AND FAMILY BENEFITS ACT 1938 - SECT 6A

6A .         Admission to Fund of certain employees of Civil Service Association

        (1)         In this section — 

        the Association means the body corporate under the name of The Civil Service Association of Western Australia;

        the existing Association scheme means the scheme established by deed of trust made on 23 June 1966 between the Association and certain other parties for the purpose of making provision for retiring pensions and benefits to present and future employees of the Association.

        (2)         Upon the execution by the Treasurer pursuant to the authority of this section of an agreement with the Association and subject to any term of the agreement — 

            (a)         any employee of the Association who is at the time of the execution of the agreement a contributor to the existing Association scheme shall become a contributor under this Act and shall be deemed — 

                  (i)         to have become such a contributor on the day on which he became a contributor to the existing Association scheme; and

                  (ii)         to have contributed for units of pension under this Act at the same time as he respectively contributed for units of pension under the existing association scheme;

                and

            (b)         any person who, after the execution of the agreement, becomes a full-time employee of the Association is eligible to become a contributor under this Act if he would be eligible at that time to become a contributor had he become an employee in a department on that date.

        (3)         For the purposes of any provision of this Act in which the length of service of a contributor is relevant for the purpose of ascertaining the benefits to be paid under this Act, any period of full-time service by an employee with the Association — 

            (a)         for which the employee also was a contributor to the existing Association scheme; or

            (b)         for which the employee makes contributions under this Act,

                shall be deemed to be service with the State.

        (4)         The Treasurer is hereby authorized on behalf of the State to execute an agreement with the Association and the Trustees of the existing Association scheme for the purposes of giving effect to the provisions of this section, but any such agreement shall contain, inter alia , provisions — 

            (a)         requiring the Association or the Trustees to pay to the Fund the total of all contributions made by employees of the Association under the existing Association scheme and held by the Association or the Trustees on the date of execution of the agreement;

            (b)         requiring the Association or the Trustees to pay to the Treasurer the total amount of all contributions which were required to be provided to the Trustees by the Association to meet the Association’s liability under the existing Association scheme in respect of employees who are members of the existing Association scheme on the date of execution of the agreement;

            (c)         requiring the Association to pay to the Board for transmission to the Treasurer each fortnight after the date of execution of the agreement a sum equal to 2½ times the aggregate of its employees’ contributions in respect of the first 20 units and 5 times the aggregate of its employees’ contributions in respect of all other units.

        [Section 6A inserted by No. 75 of 1973 s.4.]