Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2014C00569:section:3:p3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2014C00569
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 3 (pt 3/3)
Character Range: 7483–8920

ceased to pay contributions or he attained the maximum age for retirement, whichever first occurred; and
 (b) in relation to any other eligible pensioner—means the time immediately before his retirement or immediately before he attained the age of sixty‑five years, whichever first occurred.
 (2) Subject to the last preceding subsection, expressions used in this Act that are also used in the Superannuation Act 1922‑1971 have in this Act, unless the contrary intention appears, the same respective meanings as they have in the Superannuation Act 1922‑1971.
 (3) For the purposes of this Act, the annual salary that was payable at any material time to an eligible pensioner who, at that time, was paid salary at a rate other than an annual rate of salary shall be ascertained as prescribed for the purposes of paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section 36 of the Superannuation Act 1922‑1971.
 (4) For the purposes of this Act, an eligible pensioner who is in receipt of a deferred pension shall be deemed to have retired on the day immediately preceding the day on which the deferred pension became payable and to have been in receipt on that day of such annual salary as the Treasurer, having regard to general increases in the rates of salaries of contributors that occurred, determines to be the salary that, as at that day, corresponded with the annual salary that was payable to him immediately before he ceased to be an employee.