Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00500:section:12a:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00500
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 12A (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 47268–49767

12A  Benefit payable where Judge ceases to hold office or dies on or after 1 July 2006

Scope
 (1) This section applies if:
 (a) a person who is a Judge ceases otherwise than by death to be a Judge on or after 1 July 2006 and no pension is payable to the person or to a spouse or an eligible child of the person; or
 (b) a person who is, or has previously been, a Judge dies on or after 1 July 2006 without leaving a spouse or eligible child; or
 (c) a person who is, or has previously been, a Judge has died leaving a spouse or spouses or an eligible child or eligible children and:
 (i) the pension or pensions payable to the spouse or spouses or the child or children have ceased to be payable; and
 (ii) the last such pension that ceased to be payable so ceased on or after 1 July 2006;
and, on the last day on which the person held office as a Judge, the person was not a qualified employee (within the meaning of the Superannuation (Productivity Benefit) Act 1988).

Benefit
 (2) Subject to subsection (3), there is payable to the person or, if the person has died, to the personal representative of the person an amount of benefit equal to the sum of the following amounts:
 (a) the total of the minimum amounts that the Commonwealth would have had to contribute to a complying superannuation fund or scheme for the benefit of the person in order to avoid having any individual superannuation guarantee shortfalls in respect of the person if it were assumed that:
 (i) the person was an employee of the Commonwealth (within the meaning of the Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Act 1992) in his or her capacity as a Judge and had never been an employee of the Commonwealth (within the meaning of that Act) in any other capacity; and
 (ii) this Act had not been enacted; and
 (iii) those contributions were made on a monthly basis;
 (b) the interest that would have accrued on the contributions covered by paragraph (a) if it were assumed that interest on those contributions had accrued in accordance with the method set out in a determination made by the Minister under subsection (6).

Personal representatives
 (3) If an amount of benefit is payable to the personal representative of the person under subsection (2), that amount is to be reduced by the sum of the amounts of the pensions (if any) that were paid to the person or any spouse or eligible child of the person under this Act.
 (4) If an amount of benefit is payable under subsection (2) to the personal representative of