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SUPERANNUATION.

No. 102 of 1959.

An Act relating to Superannuation.

[Assented to 4th December, 1959.]

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

Part I.—Preliminary.

Short title and citation.
1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Superannuation Act 1959.
(2.) The Superannuation Act 1922-1958 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 1922-1959.

Commencement.
2.—(1.) Subject to the next succeeding sub-section, this Act shall come into operation on the fourteenth day of December, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-nine.

(2.) The Part inserted in the Principal Act by section sixty-one of this Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on the thirtieth day of January, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-eight.

Parts.
3. This Act is divided into Parts, as follows:—
    Part I.—Preliminary.
    Part II.—Amendments of the Superannuation Act 1922— 1958.
    Part III.—Miscellaneous.

Part II.—Amendments of the Superannuation Act 1922-1958.

Medical examination of employees.
4. Section four b of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (1.) the words "Notwithstanding anything contained in any Act" and inserting in their stead the words "Except as provided by this Act, and notwithstanding anything contained in any other Act".

Certain married women not to be contributors.
5. Section four c of the Principal Act is amended by inserting in sub-section (1.), after the word "woman", the words "(not being a married woman whose husband is of unsound mind and unlikely to recover)".

Superannuation Fund.
6. Section five of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (1.) the words "; and from which shall be paid the benefits provided for in this Act".

7. After section five of the Principal Act the following sections are inserted:—

Payments by Commonwealth to Fund.
"5a. Payments by the Commonwealth to the Fund shall be made from the Consolidated Revenue Fund, which is appropriated accordingly.

Benefits to be paid from Fund.
"5b.—(1.) Subject to the next succeeding sub-section, payments in respect of benefits under this Act shall be made from the Fund.
"(2.) Where the Commonwealth would be liable to pay to the Fund an amount equal to the whole or a part of a payment made to a person from the Fund, whether under this Act or under any other Act, that amount may be paid to that person by the Commonwealth instead of from the Fund, and the Consolidated Revenue Fund is appropriated accordingly.
"(3.) A payment by the Commonwealth under the last preceding sub-section does not affect the liability of the Commonwealth to pay to