Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SUPERANNUATION AMENDMENT ACT 1976 No. 32, 1976 - SECT 46

46. Section 79 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end thereof
the following sub-sections:-

''(4) The Board shall not exercise its powers under sub-section (2) of this
section in relation to a person who is a contributor to the Provident Account
except in pursuance of an application made by the person before 13 February
1976.

''(5) Where, on or after 13 February 1976 but before 30 April 1976, a person
who is a contributor to the Provident Account makes application to the Board
for the Board to exercise its powers in relation to him under sub-section (2)
of this section and the application arose out of or is otherwise related to a
communication made to the Board by the person before 13 February 1976, the
Board may, for the purposes of sub-section (4) of this section, treat the
application as having been made before that last-mentioned date.

''(6) Where an application made to the Board under sub-section (2) of this
section has not been determined by the Board before 1 July 1976, the
Commissioner for Superannuation may exercise the powers of the Board under
this section in relation to the application.

''(7) Where, after the pay-day last preceding 1 July 1976, the Board or the
Commissioner for Superannuation decides, under sub-section (2) of this
section, to allow a contributor to the Provident Account to contribute to the
Fund under Part III of this Act, the decision shall be deemed to have been
made on that pay-day.''.