Superannuation (PSS) Membership Inclusion Amendment Declaration 2012 (No. 1)1

I, PENELOPE YING YEN WONG, Minister for Finance and Deregulation, make this Declaration under paragraph 6 (1) (j) of the Superannuation Act 1990.

Dated 26th June 2012

PENELOPE YING YEN WONG

Minister for Finance and Deregulation

1 Name of Declaration

This Declaration is the Superannuation (PSS) Membership Inclusion Amendment Declaration 2012 (No. 1).

2 Commencement

This Declaration commences on the day after it is registered.

3 Amendment of Superannuation (PSS) Membership Inclusion Declaration 2006

Schedule 1 amends the Superannuation (PSS) Membership Inclusion Declaration 2006.

Schedule 1 Amendments

(section 3)

[1] Subsection 3 (1), immediately before the definition of AHPRA

Insert

ACECQA (short for the Australian Children's Education and Care Quality Authority) has the same meaning as in the Education and Care Services National Law Act 2010 (Vic).

[2] After subsection 4 (20)

insert

(21) Section 6 of the 1990 Act ceases to apply to a person referred to in item 28 of Schedule 1 at the end of the earlier of:

(a) the day on which the person ceases to be an employee of ACECQA;

(b) the day immediately before the day on which the person becomes, in relation to the person’s employment with ACECQA, a member of an alternative superannuation scheme; or

(c) if ACECQA ceases to be a statutory authority of Victoria – the last day on which ACECQA is a statutory authority of Victoria.

[3] Schedule 1, after item 27

insert

28 A person who:

(a) is an employee of ACECQA; and

(b) is a person who immediately before last becoming so employed, was a member of the Public Sector Superannuation Scheme; and

Notes

1. This Declaration amends F2006L04171, as amended by F2009L01161; F2010L01736; and F2011L01391.

2. All legislative instruments and compilations are registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments kept under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003. See www.comlaw.gov.au.