Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004C05891:section:14:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004C05891
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 14 (pt 2/3)
Character Range: 15963–18712

the report on each investigation, the Commonwealth Actuary shall certify the amount, or further amount, if any, which, in his opinion, should be paid into the Ministerial Fund by the Commonwealth in order to make proper provision for the payment out of that Fund of benefits payable under this Part in relation to periods of service before the commencement of this Part.
  "(5.) The Commonwealth shall pay into the Ministerial Fund such amount, if any, as is determined by resolution of each House after consideration of any certification by the Commonwealth Actuary in accordance with the last preceding sub-section.
 "22E. Contributions.
 "(1.) Subject to this section, every office-holder shall contribute to the Ministerial Fund at the appropriate rate fixed by this section.
 "(2) The contributions payable under this section shall be deducted from payments of parliamentary allowance or ministerial salary made to the contributor, and each deduction shall, so far as practicable, be in respect of the same period as that in respect of which the payment is made.
 "(3) Amounts so deducted shall be paid into the Ministerial Fund.
 "(4) Contributions are not payable by an officer-holder—
 (a) after he has contributed under this section in respect of a period of, or periods aggregating, fourteen years; or
 (b) after he has qualified, subject only to his ceasing to be entitled to a parliamentary allowance, to be paid a pension under section nineteen A of this Act by reason of having held the office of Prime Minister.
 "(5) The rates of contribution under this section are—
 (a) in the case of a Minister or the Leader of the Opposition in the House of Representatives—Four pounds five shillings per week;
 (b) in the case of the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate or the Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the House of Representatives—Two pounds two shillings and sixpence per week; and
 (c) in the case of the Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate—One pound one shilling and threepence per week.
 "22F. Contributions by Commonwealth.
  The Commonwealth shall pay into the Fund, in respect of a pension under this Part, an amount equal to seventy per centum of each amount of pension paid.
 "22G. Applications of benefits.
  Pensions and other benefits under this Part are payable only to or in relation to persons who are office-holders at the commencement of this Part or become office-holders thereafter.
 "22H. Benefits to contributors.
 "(1.) Subject to this Part, a person who has contributed to the Ministerial Fund and ceases to be entitled to a parliamentary allowance and his ministerial salary (if any), otherwise than by reason of his death, is entitled to benefits from the Ministerial Fund in accordance with this