Woodlands v SAS Trustee Corporation [2001] NSWIRComm 232

Industrial Relations Commission of New South Wales in Court Session

CITATION : Woodlands v SAS Trustee Corporation [2001] NSWIRComm 232 APPELLANT John Edward Woodlands PARTIES : RESPONDENT SAS Trustee Corporation FILE NUMBER: IRC 1613 of 2000 CORAM: Hungerford J CATCHWORDS : Police - Superannuation appeal - Discharge from police force on medical grounds - Multiple infirmities - Incapable of discharging the duties of office - Infirmity of partial incapacity - Whether partial incapacity causally related to incapability to discharge duties - Whether fitness for employment affected by partial incapacity - Otherwise total incapacity from separate infirmities - Nature and extent of infirmity. Superannuation - Police Service - Appeal against refusal to certify a specified infirmity of body as making a police officer incapable of discharging the duties of office - Discharge from police force on medical grounds - Multiple infirmities - Infirmity of partial incapacity - Whether partial incapacity causally related to incapability to discharge duties - Whether fitness for employment affected by partial incapacity - Otherwise total incapacity from separate infirmities - Separate infirmities included in certificate of relevant incapacity - Whether partial infirmity should be added to certificate for superannuation purposes - Appeal allowed. Interpretation Act 1987 s 8(b) LEGISLATION CITED : Police Regulation (Superannuation) Act 1906 s 7 s 8 s 10 s 10B s 12D s 14 s 21 Superannuation Administration Act 1996 s 88 Adams v State Authorities Superannuation Board (unreported, Cullen J, 90/551, 5 December 1991) CASES CITED : Boland v SAS Trustee Corporation (1999) 97 IR 127 Daykin v SAS Trustee Corporation [2000] NSWIRComm 7 Wooden v State Authorities Superannuation Trustee Corporation (unreported, Peterson J, IRC97/829, 28 July 1998) HEARING DATES: 06/04/2001; 06/05/2001 DATE OF JUDGMENT: 09/28/2001