Government Superannuation Fund Amendment Act 1961

1: Short Title and Commencement
1: This Act may be cited as the Government Superannuation Fund Amendment Act 1961 the Government Superannuation Fund Act 1956
2: Sections 3 to 5
3: The remaining provisions of this Act shall come into force on its passing.
2: Section 2 repealed 25 December 1986 5(2) Government Superannuation Fund Amendment Act 1986 Western Samoan Public Service
3: This section amended the definition of the term Government service section 2(1)
4: Contributors with service in Western Samoa
1: All persons who, at the termination on the 1st day of January 1962 of the Trusteeship Agreement for the Territory of Western Samoa, are contributors in respect of their service in the Western Samoan Public Service or the Western Samoa Trust Estates Corporation shall thereupon cease to be contributors to the Fund: Provided that, where the service of any person is then deemed under subsection (2) subsection (2)
2: With the consent of the Board in each case, the service in any capacity of the Government of Western Samoa or of the Western Samoa Trust Estates Corporation by any contributor who, at the termination on the 1st day of January 1962 of the Trusteeship Agreement for the Territory of Western Samoa, is or has been employed in the New Zealand Government Service, or by any other contributor approved by the Board in any special case, shall be deemed by the Board for the purposes of the principal Act to be Government service.
3: Where after the termination on the 1st day of January 1962 of the said Agreement any person who is for the time being employed in the Government service and is a contributor to the Fund enters the service of the Government of Western Samoa or of the Western Samoa Trust Estates Corporation, that person may, if the Board in its absolute discretion so approves, continue to be a contributor to the Fund.
4: Subject to the completion of an agreement between the Government of Western Samoa and the National Provident Fund Board pursuant to section 60 of the National Provident Fund Act 1950
a: Out of the Government Superannuation Fund the amount certified by the Government Actuary as being the portion of the Fund held in respect of those persons who cease under subsection (1)
b: Out of the Consolidated Account subsection (1) subsection (1) Subsection (4)(b) amended 1 April 1978 by substituting a reference to the Consolidated Account Consolidated Revenue Account substituted Consolidated Fund Public Revenues Amendment Act 1963 Public Finance Act 1977
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6: Parliamentary superannuation
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11: Section 11 repealed 1 November 1976 32(2)(a) Government Superannuation Fund Amendment Act 1976
12: Saving of existing rights
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the principal Act as amended by this Act, in any case where—
a: The rate of the annual retiring allowance that is or becomes payable under section 84
b: The rate of the annuity that is or becomes payable under section 87 surviving spouse or partner is less than would be payable if this Act had not been passed, the annual retiring allowance or annuity, as the case may be, shall be paid at the rate that would have been payable if this Act had not been passed. Section 12 amended 26 April 2005 10(1) Government Superannuation Fund Amendment Act 2005 by substituting the words surviving spouse or partner widow