Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A03971:section:50:p4
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A03971
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 50 (pt 4/12)
Character Range: 228820–231343

benefit in respect of a day of employment

"3a. (1) In this section:

'employment event', in relation to a person, means:

(a) the person ceasing to be a qualified employee; or

(b) another change in the person's employment.

"(2) Where (whether before or after the commencement of this section) a person was a qualified employee on a day for the purpose of ascertaining the amount of an interim benefit payable in respect of the person because of an employment event, the person is taken not to have been a qualified employee on that day for the purpose of ascertaining the amount (if any) of:

(a) an interim benefit payable in respect of the person because of a later employment event; or

    (b) what, for the purposes of this Act, the Superannuation Act or the new Superannuation Act, would have been the interim benefit payable in respect of the person if a later employment event had occurred.

"(3) Where a person was a qualified employee on a day for the purpose of ascertaining the amount of what, for the purposes of this Act, the Superannuation Act or the new Superannuation Act, would have been the interim benefit payable in respect of the person if an employment event had occurred, the person is taken not to have been a qualified employee on that day for the purpose of ascertaining the amount (if any) of:

(a) an interim benefit payable in respect of the person because of a later employment event; or

    (b) what, for the purposes of this Act or one of those other Acts, would have been the interim benefit payable in respect of the person if a later employment event had occurred.".

99. After section 3a of the Principal Act the following sections are inserted:

Rates of salary

"3b. (1) For the purposes of this Act, the rate of salary of a remainder employee for a pay period of the employee is taken to be:

    (a) where the employee worked on a full-time basis for the whole of his or her first pay period after whichever is the later of the commencement of his or her employment by his or her current designated employer or the last anniversary of the employee's birth—the employee's rate of salary for that first pay period; or

    (b) in any other case—what would have been the employee's rate of salary for that first pay period if he or she had worked on a full-time basis for the whole of it at the same hourly or other rate as that at which he or she was paid.

"(2) Where a remainder employee is re-employed by a designated employer:

    (a) later than 12 months after the employee