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Superannuation

No. 69 of 1966

An Act to amend the Superannuation Act 1922–1965 in relation to Orphans' Pensions and in relation to Members of the Police Force of the Australian Capital Territory.

[Assented to 29 October 1966]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.
1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Superannuation Act 1966.

(2.) The Superannuation Act 1922–1965 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Superannuation Act 1922–1966.

Commencement.
2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Payments by Commonwealth.
3. Section 33 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-section:—

"(7.) Where a payment of pension is made in respect of a child and the rate of the pension is, in accordance with sub-section (3.) of section forty-six, sub-section (3.) of section forty-seven, or sub-section (1aa.) of section forty-eight, of this Act, determined in whole or in part by reference to the pension that would, but for her death or divorce, have been payable to the widow or wife referred to in whichever of those sub-sections is applicable, the Commonwealth shall, in lieu of any other amount payable by the Commonwealth to the Fund under sub-section (2.) of this section in respect of the payment of pension, pay to the Fund, in respect of the payment of pension, an amount determined in accordance with the formula—
where—
      A is five-sevenths of the amount that would have been the amount of that payment of pension if the pension had been payable at the rate of Two hundred and eight dollars per annum;
      B is the amount that, if the widow or the wife had survived or had not been divorced and a payment of pension had been made to her by virtue of paragraph (a) of sub-section (1.) of section forty-six, or paragraph (a) of sub-section (1.) of section forty-seven, of this Act, as the case may be, for the same period as the period for which the payment of pension in respect of the child was made, would have been payable by the Commonwealth to the Fund in respect of the payment of pension to the widow or wife; and

      C is the number that, in relation to the pension payable in respect of the child, is the divisor for the purposes of sub-section (3.) of section forty-six, sub-section (3.) of section forty-seven, or sub-section (1aa.) of section forty-eight, of this Act, whichever sub-section