Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00321:reg:55:p62
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00321
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 55 (pt 62/83)
Character Range: 559885–562617

day of membership, if that day is before 1 March 1996; or
                          (ii) 1 July 1990, if he/she last became a member of the CSS scheme before that date and his/her first day of membership is on or after 1 March 1996; or
                      (b) if the member's period of membership of the CSS scheme (or last period of membership if he/she had been an eligible employee under the Superannuation Act 1976 more than once) did not encompass three birthdays, the average of the member's annual rates of salary under the Superannuation Act 1976 on:
                          (i) his/her birthdays which occurred before his/her first day of membership while he/she was an eligible employee under the Superannuation Act 1976 and his/her first day of service for the purposes of that Act (if not a birthday), if his/her first day of membership is before 1 March 1996; or
                          (ii) his/her birthdays which occurred before 1 July 1990 while he/she was an eligible employee under the Superannuation Act 1976 and his/her first day of service for the purposes of that Act (if not a birthday), if his/her first day of membership is on or after 1 March 1996 and he/she last became a member of the CSS scheme before 1 July 1990; or
                      (c) if the member last became a member of the CSS Scheme after 30 June 1990, the annual rate of salary under the Superannuation Act 1976 applicable on his/her first day of service for the purposes of that Act.
                      Provided that:
                          (A) for a member in receipt of a partial invalidity pension on a birthday (or first day of service), the annual rate of salary under the Superannuation Act 1976 is the rate that would have applied if the member had ceased to be an eligible employee under that Act on that day; and
                          (B) CSC may use an alternative salary where it considers that the CSS Average Salary calculated above is not in accordance with the spirit of the Rules and would lead to inequitable treatment between members.
14.2.4 Where CSC has used an alternative salary for the purposes of CSS Average Salary in the formula in Rule 14.2.3, the affected member is to be:
         (a) advised of the use of that alternative salary and his/her resultant CSS Transfer Multiple; and
    (b) given the opportunity to reconsider his/her decision to transfer to the PSS scheme.

Accrual element of CSS Transfer Multiple
14.2.5 The accrual element is the sum of the accruals calculated using the following formula on each of the contribution due days on which the member was an eligible employee for the purposes of the Superannuation Act 1976 in the period from 1 July 1990 to his/her first day of