Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) Where, before or
after the coming into operation of the Superannuation and Family Benefits
Amendment Act 1982 1 , a person not being an employee for the purposes of
this Act was or is appointed for a term of years to a statutory office under
the Government of the State in a department, that person shall be deemed upon
his appointment to have been or to be employed in a permanent capacity for the
purposes of the definition of “employee” in section 6(1)
notwithstanding paragraph (a) of that definition.
(2) Where, before the
coming into operation of the Superannuation and Family Benefits Amendment
Act 1982 1 a person who was not an employee for the purposes of this Act
was appointed for a term of years to a statutory office under the Government
of the State in a Department and that person elected or purported to elect to
become a contributor for units of a pension under this Act and the Board
accepted or purported to accept his election, the election of that person and
the acceptance of the Board shall be deemed to be and always to have been
valid and that person shall be deemed to have become a contributor and as such
in all respects to have become subject to and bound by this Act.
[Section 6B inserted by No. 23 of 1982
s.3.]