Superannuation (PSS) Membership Inclusion Amendment Declaration 2015 (No. 1)1

I, MATHIAS HUBERT PAUL CORMANN, Minister for Finance, make this Declaration under paragraph 6 (1) (j) of the Superannuation Act 1990.

Dated        19-06-2015

MATHIAS HUBERT PAUL CORMANN

Minister for Finance

1 Name of Declaration

  This Declaration is the Superannuation (PSS) Membership Inclusion Amendment Declaration 2015 (No. 1).

2 Commencement

  This Declaration commences on 10 July 1997.

3 Application

  The amendments made by items 2 and 3 of Schedule 1 to this Declaration apply in relation to persons who become employees of Australian Hearing Services on or after 1 July 1997.

4 Amendment of Superannuation (PSS) Membership Inclusion Declaration 2006

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

Schedule 1 Amendments

(section 4)

[1] Subsection 3 (1), immediately after the definition of ARPC

Insert

Australian Hearing Services means the body corporate established under Part 2 of the Australian Hearing Services Act 1991.

[2] After subsection 4 (22)

insert

 (23) Section 6 of the 1990 Act ceases to apply to a person referred to in item 30 of Schedule 1 at the end of the earlier of:

 (a) the day on which the person ceases to be an employee of Australian Hearing Services;

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

 (c) if Australian Hearing Services ceases to be a corporate Commonwealth entity within the meaning of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 – the last day on which Australian Hearing Services is a corporate Commonwealth entity.

[3] Schedule 1, after item 29

insert

 30 A person who:

 (a) is an employee of Australian Hearing Services; and

 (b) in respect of whom contributions were accepted, purportedly under the Act, on or after 1 July 1997, in relation to the person’s employment with Australian Hearing Services; and

 (c) is not, in relation to the person’s employment with Australian Hearing Services, a member of an alternative superannuation scheme.                           

1. This Declaration amends F2006L04171, as amended by F2009L01161; F2010L01736; F2011L01391; F2012L01535, F2012L02143 and F2014L00727.

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.