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Statutory Rules 1993   No. 341
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Superannuation (Productivity Benefit) Alternative Arrangements Declaration No. 6

I, RALPH WILLIS, Minister of State for Finance, make the following Declaration under subsections 4a (1) and (2) of the Superannuation (Productivity Benefit) Act 1988.

 Dated 15 February 1993.

RALPH WILLIS
Minister of State for Finance

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Citation

 1. This Declaration may be cited as Superannuation (Productivity Benefit) Alternative Arrangements Declaration No. 6.

Commencement

 2. This Declaration is taken to have commenced on 17 December 1992.

Interpretation

 3. In this Declaration, unless the contrary intention appears:
"member" means a member of the class of qualified employees specified in clause 4;
"performance pay" means a payment of that name payable on or after 17 December 1992:
         (a) under an industrial agreement under Division 3 of Part VI of the Industrial Relations Act 1988; and
         (b) in accordance with a determination of a kind referred to in Schedule 4 or 5 in Attachment C to the Agreement between the Commonwealth and employee organisations, dated 4 December 1992 and called "Improving Productivity, Jobs and Pay in the Australian Public Service 1992-1994";
"the Act" means the Superannuation (Productivity Benefit) Act 1988.

Class of qualified employees
 4. For the purposes of subsection 4a (1) of the Act, the class of qualified employees who are entitled to receive performance pay are a class of employees who are neither fund employees nor interim arrangement employees.

Arrangements that apply to the class

 5. For the purposes of subsection 4a (2) of the Act, the arrangements stated in the following clauses apply to members.

Election to have performance pay taken into account in superannuation arrangements

 6. (1) A member may give a notice of election to have performance pay taken into account in his or her superannuation arrangements under the Act.

 (2) A notice must be given in accordance with subclauses 9 (2), (3) and (4).

Selection by members of funds

 7. (1) This clause applies only to a member who makes an election under clause 6.

 (2) A member may give a notice of election to have payments under subclause 11 (1) in relation to the member paid by the designated employer to an approved fund specified in the notice.

 (3) A member :
         (a) who has been appointed to the Senior Executive Service for a fixed term; and
         (b) to whom superannuation benefits are provided in accordance with a determination made for that purpose under section 45 of the Public Service Act 1922;
may give a notice of election to have payments under subclause 11 (1) in relation to the member's performance pay paid in accordance with the notice.

 (4) A notice under subclause (3) must state that the payments to which the