Superannuation (CSS) (Eligible Employees — Inclusion) Amendment Declaration 2015 (No. 1)1
I, MATHIAS HUBERT PAUL CORMANN, Minister for Finance, make this Declaration under paragraph (ec) of the definition of eligible employee in subsection 3 (1) of the Superannuation Act 1976.
Dated     19-6-2015
MATHIAS HUBERT PAUL CORMANN
Minister for Finance
 
1              Name of Declaration
                This Declaration is the Superannuation (CSS) (Eligible Employees — Inclusion) Amendment Declaration 2015 (No. 1).
2              Commencement
                This Declaration commences on 10 July 1997.
3              Application
                The amendments made by item 2 of Schedule 1 to this Declaration apply in relation to persons who become employees of Australian Hearing Services on or after 1 July 1997.
4              Amendment of Superannuation (CSS) (Eligible Employees — Inclusion) Declaration 2003
                Schedule 1 amends the Superannuation (CSS) (Eligible Employees — Inclusion) Declaration 2003.
Schedule 1        Amendments
(section 4)
  
[1]           Subsection 3 (1), immediately after the definition of Australian Government Solicitor
insert
 
Australian Hearing Services means the body corporate established under Part 2 of the Australian Hearing Services Act 1991.
[2]           After section 4
insert
5              Persons who are eligible employees
     (1)       For paragraph (ec) of the definition of eligible employee in subsection 3 (1) of the Act, and subject to subsection (2), a person is an eligible employee if the person is in the class of persons each of whom:
                (a)    is an employee of Australian Hearing Services, other than on a casual or temporary part-time basis; and
               (b)    in respect of whom contributions were accepted, purportedly under the Act, on or after 1 July 1997, in relation to the person’s employment with Australian Hearing Services; and
                (c)    is not, in relation to the person’s employment with Australian Hearing Services, a member of an alternative superannuation scheme.
     (2)       A person ceases to be an eligible employee for the purposes of subsection (1) at the end of the first-occurring of the following days:
                (a)    the day the person ceases to be an employee of Australian Hearing Services;
               (b)    the day immediately before the day on which the person becomes, in relation to the person’s employment with Australian Hearing Services, a member of an alternative superannuation scheme;
               (b)    the day immediately before the day on which the person becomes a casual or temporary part‑time employee of Australian Hearing Services;
                (c)    if Australian Hearing Services ceases to be a corporate Commonwealth entity – the last day on which Australian Hearing Services is a corporate Commonwealth entity.
Notes
1.       This Declaration amends F2006B01696, as amended by F2005L01867; F2005L02388; F2009L01158; F2011L01388; F2012L01533 and F2012L02138.
2.       All legislative instruments and compilations are registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments kept under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003. See www.comlaw.gov.au.