Commerce Act 1986

The Commerce Commission

18D: Superannuation and retiring allowances

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"Rules about superannuation for people who work at the Commerce Commission"

If you work for the Commerce Commission, you might be wondering about superannuation and retiring allowances. You are considered to be employed in the Government service if you were already helping the Commission and contributing to the Government Superannuation Fund under Part 2 of the Government Superannuation Fund Act 1956 before the Commerce Act started. The Government Superannuation Fund Act 1956 applies to you as if you were working for the Government.

If you stop contributing to the Government Superannuation Fund, you cannot start contributing again, according to the Government Superannuation Fund Act 1956. The Commerce Commission is in charge of your superannuation. You will be treated like a Government employee for superannuation purposes as long as you work for the Commission.

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18C: Choice of procedure, or

"This part of the law, 'Choice of procedure', is no longer used and was removed in 2004."

19: Money to be appropriated by Parliament for purposes of this Act, or

"Parliament decides the Commerce Commission's budget"

Part 1The Commerce Commission

18DSuperannuation and retiring allowances

Repealed
Notwithstanding anything in this Act, any person who, immediately before the commencement of this Act was assisting the Commission by virtue of an appointment under section 18(1) and was a contributor to the Government Superannuation Fund under Part 2 of the Government Superannuation Fund Act 1956 shall be deemed, for the purposes of the Government Superannuation Fund Act 1956, to be employed in the Government service so long as that person continues to be an officer or employee of the Commission; and that Act shall apply to the person in all respects as if service as such an officer or employee were Government service. For the purposes of the Government Superannuation Fund Act 1956, the controlling authority in relation to any such person shall be the Commission.
Subject to the Government Superannuation Fund Act 1956, nothing in subsection (2) shall entitle any person to whom that subsection applies to become a contributor to the Government Superannuation Fund after ceasing to be a contributor to that Fund.

Notes

Section 18D: inserted, on 1 July 1990, by section 10 of the Commerce Amendment Act 1990 (1990 No 41).
Section 18D(1): repealed, on 25 January 2005, by section 200 of the Crown Entities Act 2004 (2004 No 115).