Western Australian Consolidated Regulations Western Australian Consolidated Regulations (1) Where a person who
is not already a member of the Fund becomes a mine worker that person shall,
by virtue of this regulation, become —
(a) if
the Board is of the opinion that the person is unlikely to remain in service
as a mine worker for more than 6 months, a category C member; or
(b)
otherwise, a category A member,
when he or she becomes
a mine worker.
(2) If a category C
member is still in service as a mine worker 6 months after becoming a
category C member, he or she becomes a category A member from the day after
the expiry of those 6 months.
(3) However if, on the
expiry of those 6 months, the Board is of the opinion that the member is
unlikely to remain in service as a mine worker for more than a further
3 months, the Board may allow the person to remain a category C member
for a further period of up to 3 months.
(4) If, on the expiry
of any such further period, the person is still in service as a mine worker,
he or she becomes a category A member from the day after the expiry of that
further period.
(5) If the Board is of
the opinion that the terms of a category C member’s employment,
appointment, election or contract have changed so that he or she is likely to
remain in service as a mine worker for more than 6 months (or any longer
period allowed under subregulation (3)), the person becomes a category A
member from the day on which that change occurred.
(6) A mine worker who
is on active service as a member of the Defence Forces of the Commonwealth is
deemed to continue to be in service as a mine worker during that period.
[Regulation 11 inserted in Gazette
23 May 2003 p. 1824-5.]