Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004C00462:section:10:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004C00462
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 10 (pt 1/4)
Character Range: 14803–17606

10  Persons discharged with not less than twenty years' service for pension

 (1) This section applies to a person to whom this Act applies who, on retirement, has completed not less than twenty years' service for pension.

 (2) In this section:

person contributing on retirement for additional benefits means a person to whom this section applies who had, before his retirement, become liable to make to the Fund:
 (a) additional contributions as defined by subsection (5) of section fifty‑one of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1959; or
 (b) contributions to which subsection (4) of that section applies;
and had not,before his retirement, ceased to be liable to make those contributions.

person not contributing on retirement for additional benefits means a person to whom this section applies other than a person contributing on retirement for additional benefits.

the maximum additional pension contribution means:
 (a) in relation to a person not contributing on retirement for additional benefits, such amount as is determined by the Board on the advice of the Commonwealth Actuary as being the amount of the additional contribution that the person should pay to the Fund in respect of the difference between the maximum pension rate applicable to him and the minimum pension rate applicable to him; and
 (b) in relation to a person contributing on retirement for additional benefits, the sum of:
 (i) the normal additional pension contribution applicable to him; and
 (ii) such amount as is determined by the Board on the advice of the Commonwealth Actuary as being the amount of additional contribution that the person should pay to the Fund in respect of the difference between the maximum pension rate applicable to him and the normal pension rate applicable to him.

the maximum pension rate, in relation to a person to whom this section applies, means the rate at which pension would have been payable to him under section forty‑one of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948‑1959 if he had completed the engagement under which he was serving immediately before his retirement and had retired on the completion of that engagement.

the minimum pension rate means:
 (a) in relation to a person not contributing on retirement for additional benefits, the rate at which pension would have been payable to him under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948‑1959 if this Act had not been enacted; and
 (b) n relation to a person contributing on retirement for additional benefits, a rate equal to the normal pension rate applicable to him reduced to such extent as is determined by the Board on the advice of the Commonwealth Actuary.

the normal additional pension contribution, in relation to a person contributing on retirement for additional benefits, means such