State Insurance Act 1990

1: Short Title and commencement
1: This Act may be cited as the State Insurance Act 1990.
2: Except as provided in sections 22 23 24
2: Interpretation
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— appointed day Order in Council section 6 company section 4 contract instrument
a: any instrument (other than this Act) of any form or kind that creates, evidences, modifies, or extinguishes rights, interests, or liabilities or would do so if it or a copy of it were lodged, filed, or registered under any enactment; and
b: any judgment, order, or process of a court instrument by way of security section 2 of the Chattels Transfer Act 1924 land section 2 liabilities Ministers property
a: chooses in action and money:
b: goodwill:
c: rights, interests, and claims of every kind in or to property, whether arising from, accruing under, created or evidenced by or the subject of, an instrument or otherwise and whether liquidated or unliquidated, actual, contingent, or prospective Responsible Minister rights security State Insurance General Manager State Insurance Act 1963 State Insurance Office State Insurance Act 1963 State Insurance undertaking 1989 No 81 s 2
3: Act to bind the Crown
This Act shall bind the Crown.
4: Incorporation of company
1: Notwithstanding the State Insurance Act 1963 Companies Act 1955
a: has the name State Insurance Limited
b: has a memorandum of association and articles of association in such form as the Ministers may determine.
2: All the shares in the capital of the company shall, on its incorporation, be subscribed for by the Ministers on behalf of the Crown equally.
3: On the appointed day all the shares in the capital of the company subscribed for in accordance with subsection (2)
4: Nothing in section 60 of the Companies Act 1955 subsection (3)
5: Nothing in this section prevents the name of the company being changed in accordance with the provisions of the Companies Act 1955 1989 No 81 s 4(1)
5: Crown shareholding
1: Each Minister may, from time to time, on behalf of the Crown, subscribe for or otherwise acquire securities in the capital of the company in addition to the shares subscribed for under section 4
2: Any money required to be paid by a Minister to subscribe for or acquire securities issued by the company shall be paid out of a Crown Bank Account
3: Securities of the company in the name of a person described as the responsible Minister or the Minister of Finance shall be held by the person who is for the time being the responsible Minister or who holds the office of the Minister of Finance, as the case may be.
4: Notwithstanding any other enactment or rule of law, it shall not be necessary to complete or register a transfer of securities issued by the company consequent upon a change in the person who is the responsible Minister or the person who holds office as the Minister of Finance, as the case may be.
5: Each Minister may exercise all the rights and powers attaching to securities issued by the company held by that Minister. 1989 No 81 s 8 Section 5(2) amended 25 January 2005 section 65R(3) Public Finance Act 1989
6: Undertaking of State Insurance General Manager and State Insurance Office to vest in company
On a date to be appointed by the Governor-General by Order in Council, the State Insurance undertaking shall vest in the company. 1989 No 81 s 5 Section 6: 28 June 1990 appointed as the date on which the State Insurance undertaking shall vest in State Insurance Limited, on 25 June 1990 State Insurance Act (Vesting) Order 1990
7: Consequential provisions on transfer of undertaking
Without limiting the generality of section 6
a: a reference (express or implied) to the State Insurance General Manager or the State Insurance Office in any other Act, or in any regulation, order, or notice made or given under any enactment, or in any instrument, register, record, notice, security, document or communication, made, given, passed, or executed before or after the appointed day, shall be read and construed as a reference to the company:
b: all contracts, agreements, conveyances, deeds, leases, licences, and other instruments, undertakings, and notices (whether or not in writing), entered into by, made with, given to or by, or addressed to the State Insurance General Manager or the State Insurance Office (whether alone or with any other person) before the appointed day and subsisting immediately before the appointed day shall, to the extent that they were previously binding on and enforceable by, against, or in favour of the State Insurance General Manager or the State Insurance Office, be binding on and enforceable by, against, or in favour of the company as fully and effectually in every respect as if, instead of the State Insurance General Manager or the State Insurance Office the company had been the person by whom they were entered into, with whom they were made or to or by whom they were given or addressed, as the case may be:
c: a security held by the State Insurance General Manager or the State Insurance Office as security for a debt or other liability to the State Insurance General Manager or the State Insurance Office incurred before the appointed day shall be available to the company as security for the discharge of that debt or liability and, where the security extends to future or prospective debts or liabilities, shall be available as security for the discharge of debts or liabilities to the company incurred on or after the appointed day; and, in relation to a security, the company shall be entitled to all the rights and priorities however arising and shall be subject to all liabilities to which the State Insurance General Manager or the State Insurance Office would have been entitled or subject if this Act had not been passed:
d: any action, arbitration or proceedings or cause of action which, immediately before the appointed day, is pending or existing by, against, or in favour of the State Insurance General Manager or the State Insurance Office or to which the State Insurance General Manager or the State Insurance Office is a party may be prosecuted, and without amendment of any writ, pleading or other document, continued and enforced by, against or in favour of the company. 1989 No 81 s 6(a)–(d), (g)
8: Certain matters not affected by transfer of undertaking
Nothing effected or authorised by this Act—
a: shall be regarded as placing the State Insurance General Manager or the State Insurance Office, or the company, or any other person in breach of contract or confidence or as otherwise making any of them guilty of a civil wrong; or
b: shall be regarded as giving rise to a right for any person to terminate or cancel any contract or arrangement or to accelerate the performance of any obligation; or
c: shall be regarded as placing the State Insurance General Manager or the State Insurance Office, or the company, or any other person in breach of any enactment or rule of law or contractual provision prohibiting, restricting, or regulating the assignment or transfer of any property or the disclosure of any information; or
d: shall release any surety wholly or in part from any obligation; or
e: shall invalidate or discharge any contract or security; or
f: shall affect any action or proceedings against the Crown commenced before 30 September 1990 that relate to the State Insurance Office. 1989 No 81 s 7(1)
9: Books and documents to remain evidence
1: Any document, matter, or thing, which, if this Act had not been passed, would have been admissible in evidence in respect of any matter for or against the State Insurance General Manager or the State Insurance Office shall, on or after the appointed day, be admissible in evidence in respect of the same matter for or against the company.
2: In this section, document section 2(1) 1989 No 81 s 9
10: Use of certain words
1: Nothing in any other enactment or rule of law prevents—
a: the use by the company or by a related company of the word State State Insurance
b: the use before the close of 31 December 1990 by the company or a related company of the words State Insurance Office State Insurance General Manager
2: Without limiting section 7 State Insurance Office State Insurance General Manager
3: For the purposes of this section, the expression related company section 2(5) of the Companies Act 1955
11: Registers
1: No Registrar of Deeds or District Land Registrar or any other person charged with the keeping of any books or registers shall be obliged solely by reason of the foregoing provisions of this Act to change the name of the State Insurance General Manager or the State Insurance Office to that of the company in those books or registers or in any document.
2: The presentation to any registrar or other person of any instrument, whether or not comprising an instrument of transfer by the company,—
a: executed or purporting to be executed by the company; and
b: relating to any property held immediately before the appointed day by the State Insurance General Manager or the State Insurance Office; and
c: containing a recital that that property has become vested in the company, by virtue of the provisions of this Act— shall, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, be sufficient proof that the property is vested in the company. 1989 No 81 s 10
12: Employees and agents of State Insurance Office not personally liable
No person who, at any time before the appointed day, held office as the General Manager of the State Insurance Office or who was an employee, agent, or representative of the State Insurance Office, shall, in the absence of fraud or unless the act or omission amounted to an offence, be personally liable in respect of any act or thing done or omitted to be done by him or her in the exercise or bona fide purported exercise of any authority conferred by or pursuant to the State Insurance Act 1963 1963 No 38 s 11
13: Taxes and duties
1: For the purposes of the Inland Revenue Acts, and any other enactment that imposes or provides for the collection of a tax, duty, levy, or other charge,—
a: the State Insurance General Manager, the State Insurance Office, and the company shall be deemed to be the same person with effect at and from the appointed day; and
b: in respect of the liability for and the assessment, determination, or imposition of taxes, duties, levies, or other charges accruing as from the appointed day under any such enactment, all transactions entered into by, and acts of, the State Insurance General Manager or the State Insurance Office before the appointed day shall be deemed to have been entered into by, or to be those of, the company and to have been entered into or performed by the company at the time when they were entered into or performed by the State Insurance General Manager or the State Insurance Office.
2: For the purposes of the Goods and Services Tax Act 1985 section 2
3: For the purposes of subsection (1) Inland Revenue Acts Schedule Tax Administration Act 1994
4: For the purposes of section 188 of the Income Tax Act 1976 tax year tax year tax year
a: the right to exercise not less than 40% of the voting power in the company; and
b: the right to receive not less than 40% of the profits that may be distributed by the company; and
c: the right to receive not less than 40% of any distribution of the paid-up capital of the company,— were held directly by the Ministers.
5: Nothing in section RM 13 to RM 17 of the Income Tax Act 2007
6: Nothing in section OA 6(2), as described in table 02 of the Income Tax Act 2007
7: For the purposes of the imputation rules of the Income Tax Act 2007
a: no credits shall arise to be recorded in the company's imputation credit account in respect of income tax that may be paid by the company in respect of the sale before the appointed day by the State Insurance General Manager of shares held on 3 May 1990 by the State Insurance General Manager:
b: no debits shall be recorded in the company's imputation credit account in respect of a refund to the company of income tax paid by the company in respect of the sale before the appointed day by the State Insurance General Manager of shares referred to in paragraph (a). 1989 No 81 s 12 Section 13(3) amended 1 April 1995 (applying with respect to the tax on income derived in 1995–96 and subsequent income years) Income Tax Act 1994 Section 13(4) amended 1 April 2005 (effective for 2005–06 tax year and later tax years, except when the context requires otherwise) section YA 2 Income Tax Act 2004 Section 13(5) amended 1 April 2008 section ZA 2(1) Income Tax Act 2007 Section 13(6) amended 1 April 2008 section ZA 2(1) Income Tax Act 2007 Section 13(7) amended 1 April 2008 section ZA 2(1) Income Tax Act 2007 Section 13(7) amended 1 April 1995 Income Tax Act 1994
14: Industrial agreement to continue
1: The agreement made between the State Insurance General Manager, the Public Service Association, and the State Services Commission relating to the terms and conditions of employment of the employees of the State Insurance Office registered with the Arbitration Commission and in force immediately before the appointed day, shall, on and after the appointed day, be deemed to have been made between the company and the Public Service Association and shall continue in force in relation to the employees of the company according to its terms.
2: While a Minister holds any shares in the capital of the company the company shall, before entering into any agreement under Part 7 of the Labour Relations Act 1987 1989 No 81 s 13
15: Union coverage
1: The Public Service Association shall, on the appointed day, be the union under the Labour Relations Act 1987 that has coverage of employees of the company.
2: The Registrar of Unions under the Labour Relations Act 1987
3: The Registrar of Unions shall, when making the amendment required by subsection (2) FINSEC
4: In making the amendments required by subsections (2) and (3)
5: The provisions of the Labour Relations Act 1987
16: Employment deemed to be continuous
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act—
a: on the appointed day each employee of the State Insurance Office shall become an employee of the company but, for the purposes of every enactment, law, award, determination, contract, and agreement relating to the employment of each such employee, the contract of employment of that employee shall be deemed to have been unbroken and any period of service with the State Insurance Office recognised by that Office as continuous service shall be deemed to have been a period of service with the company:
b: the terms and conditions of employment of each such employee shall, until varied, be identical with the terms and conditions of that employee's employment with the State Insurance Office immediately before the appointed day and be capable of variation in the same manner:
c: no such employee shall be entitled to receive any payment or other benefit by reason only of that employee ceasing by virtue of this Act to be an employee of the State Insurance Office. 1986 No 129 s 7
17: Certain provisions of State Sector Act 1988 to apply to company
On and after the appointed day, while a Minister holds any shares in the capital of the company,—
a: the provisions of subsections (1) and (2) of section 56
i: the reference in subsection (1) a Department
ii: the reference in subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (d) of subsection (2) Public Service
b: the provisions of subsections (1) and (3) of section 58 subsection (1) of that section
i: the reference to the expression a Department
ii: the reference in paragraphs (a) and (b) of that subsection the Department 1989 No 81 s 14
18: Contributors to Government Superannuation Fund
1: Any person who, immediately before the appointed day, was an officer or employee appointed under the State Sector Act 1988 Government Superannuation Fund Act 1956 Government Superannuation Fund Act 1956 Government Superannuation Fund Act 1956
2: Subject to the Government Superannuation Fund Act 1956 subsection (1)
3: For the purposes of applying the Government Superannuation Fund Act 1956 subsection (1) controlling authority 1989 No 81 s 15
19: Application of State-Owned Enterprises Act 1986
1: On and after the appointed day, while a Minister holds any shares in the capital of the company, Part 3 section 2
2: On a date on which Part 3
a: the Auditor-General
b: any person or firm holding office as an additional auditor of the company or any subsidiary of the company under section 19(3)
c: the directors of the company and of every subsidiary of the company shall appoint an auditor or auditors of the company and of every subsidiary of the company and every such appointment shall be deemed to have been made by the directors to fill a casual vacancy in the office of auditor under section 163(5) of the Companies Act 1955 1989 No 81 s 17 Section 19(2)﻿(a) amended 1 July 2001 section 52 Public Audit Act 2001
20: Application of Schedule 14 to Income Tax Act 1976
Section 20 repealed 1 April 1995 (applying with respect to the tax on income derived in 1995–96 and subsequent income years) Income Tax Act 1994
21: Application of Ombudsmen Act 1975
1: On and after the appointed day, while the Ministers hold not less than 50% of the shares in the share capital of the company, the company shall be deemed to be a person named in Part 2
2: Amendment(s) incorporated in the Act(s)
22: Income Tax Act 1976 amended
Section 22 repealed 1 April 1995 Income Tax Act 1994
23: Consequential amendments
1: The enactments specified in Schedule 1
2: This section shall come into force on the appointed day. Section 23 brought into force 28 June 1990 State Insurance Act (Vesting) Order 1990
24: Repeals
1: The enactments specified in Schedule 2
2: This section shall come into force on the appointed day. Section 24 brought into force 28 June 1990 State Insurance Act (Vesting) Order