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

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.