Defence Forces Retirement Benefits (Family Law Superannuation) Orders 2004 (Cth)

Defence Forces Retirement Benefits (Family Law Superannuation) Orders 2004

Statutory Rules 2004 No. 100 as amended

made under the

Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948

This compilation was prepared on 24 December 2004 taking into account amendments up to SR 2004 No. 409

Prepared by the Office of Legislative Drafting and Publishing, Attorney-General's Department, Canberra

Contents

Part 1 Preliminary

1.01 Name of Orders 1.02 Commencement 1.03 Definitions

Part 2 Orders for the calculation of certain amounts

2.01 Scheme value 2.02 Annual rate of associate pension 2.03 Indexation of associate pension 2.04 Commutation of small associate pension — amount 2.05 Indexation of amount for small associate pension 2.06 Reduction of standard pension

Notes

Part 1 Preliminary

1.01 Name of Orders

These Orders are the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits (Family Law Superannuation) Orders 2004.

1.02 Commencement

These Orders commence, or are taken to have commenced, on the commencement of Schedule 1 to the Superannuation Legislation Amendment (Family Law and Other Matters) Act 2004.

1.03 Definitions

(1) In these Orders: Act means the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948. Family Law Act means the Family Law Act 1975. FLS Regulations means the Family Law (Superannuation) Regulations 2001.

(2) An expression that is used in these Orders and defined in section 80A of the Act has the meaning given by that section.

Note Section 80A of the Act defines expressions including non-member spouse, operative time and transfer amount. Some expressions are defined in section 80A to have the same meaning as in the Family Law Act.

Part 2 Orders for the calculation of certain amounts

2.01 Scheme value

For the definition of scheme value in section 80A of the Act, the scheme value in relation to a member spouse is determined as follows: