Legislative Assembly Retirement Benefits Scheme (Amendment) Act 2013
Act No.14 of 2013
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1 Short title................................................................................................................ 5
2 Section 7 - Term of Appointment amended ........................................................... 5
3 Section 15 – End of Year Reports amended .......................................................... 6
4 Section 16 – Review of the Scheme amended ....................................................... 6
5 Section 19 – Contributions of members and officers amended ............................. 6
6 Section 20 – Contributions of the Legislative Assembly amended ....................... 6
7 Section 22A - amended ......................................................................................... 6
8 Schedule – amended .............................................................................................. 6
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LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY RETIREMENT BENEFITS
SCHEME (AMENDMENT) ACT 2013
Act No.14 of 2013
ACT TO AMEND THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY RETIREMENT
BENEFITS SCHEME ACT
I assent,
TUPOU VI,
30
th
August 2013.
BE IT ENACTED by the King and Legislative Assembly of Tonga in the
Legislature of the Kingdom as follows:
1 Short title
(1) This Act may be cited as the Legislative Assembly Retirement Benefits
Scheme (Amendment) Act, 2013.
(2) In this Act, the Legislative Assembly Retirement Benefits Scheme Act, as
amended is referred to as the Principal Act.
2 Section 7 - Term of Appointment amended
Section 7 of the Principal Act is amended by deleting figure “3” and replacing it
with figure “4”.
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3 Section 15 – End of Year Reports amended
Subsections (1) and (2) of section 15 are amended by deleting the figure and word
“2 months” wherever they appear and replacing them with the figure and words “3
months”.
4 Section 16 – Review of the Scheme amended
Section 16 of the Principal Act is amended by deleting the words “every 3 years”
and replacing them with the words “by the end of the third year of each
parliamentary term”.
5 Section 19 – Contributions of members and officers amended
Section 19 of the Principal Act is amended –
(a) in subsection (1) by deleting -
(i) the words and comma “in the month of July in the financial year that he
elected to become a contributing person and every year thereafter on
the same month,” ; and
(ii) the word “annually” and replacing it with the word “monthly”.
(b) in subsection (2) by deleting the word “annually” and replacing it with the
word “monthly”; and
(c) in subsection (3) by deleting the word “annually” and replacing it with the
word “monthly”.
6 Section 20 – Contributions of the Legislative Assembly amended
Section 20 of the Principal Act is amended by deleting –
(a) the words “on the month of July in the financial year that a member or officer
elects to become a contributing person and every year thereafter on the same
month”; and
(b) the word “annually” and replacing it with the word “monthly”.
7 Section 22A - amended
Section 22A of the Principal Act is amended by repealing subsection (2).
8 Schedule – amended
The title of the Schedule to the Principal Act is amended by replacing the word
“ANNUAL” with the word “MONTHLY”.
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Passed in the Legislative Assembly this 22nd day of July 2013.