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SUPERANNUATION ACT 1922 - SECT 119H

Contributors with superannuation rights from previous employment

  (1)   Where a person who, after the commencement of this section, becomes an employee and a contributor to the Fund or to the Provident Account has, at any time before becoming an employee, been in employment within or outside Australia upon the termination of which:

  (a)   a transfer value became payable to or in respect of him on or after the date of commencement of this section under a superannuation scheme applicable in relation to that employment;

  (b)   a transfer value would have become so payable on or after that date but for an election or choice made, option exercised or other act or thing done by him, or he was entitled to make an election or choice, exercise an option or do any other act or thing as a result of which a transfer value would have become so payable on or after that date but he did not make the election or choice, exercise the option or do the other act or thing;

  (c)   a prescribed pension became payable to him under such a scheme;

  (d)   a prescribed pension would have become so payable on or after the date of commencement of this section but for an election or choice made, option exercised or other act or thing done by him, or he was entitled to make an election or choice, exercise an option or do any other act or thing as a result of which a prescribed pension would have become so payable on or after that date but he did not make the election or choice, exercise the option or do the other act or thing;

  (e)   any deferred benefits became applicable in respect of him on or after the date of commencement of this section under such a scheme; or

  (f)   any deferred benefits would have become so applicable on or after that date but for an election or choice made, option exercised or other act or thing done by him, or he was entitled to make an election or choice, exercise an option or do any other act or thing as a result of which any deferred benefits would have become so applicable on or after that date but he did not make the election or choice, exercise the option or do the other act or thing;

the succeeding sections of this Division have effect.

  (2)   Paragraph   (b) of subsection   (1) shall not be taken to apply in relation to a person by reason of the doing of, or the failure to do, any act or thing if, as a result of the doing of the act or thing or as a result of the failure, paragraph   (c) or paragraph   (e) of that subsection applies in relation to him.

  (3)   Paragraph   (d) of subsection   (1) shall not be taken to apply in relation to a person by reason of the doing of, or the failure to do, any act or thing if, as a result of the doing of the act or thing or as a result of the failure, paragraph   (a) or paragraph   (e) of that subsection applies in relation to him.

  (4)   Paragraph   (f) of subsection   (1) shall not be taken to apply in relation to a person by reason of the doing of, or the failure to do, any act or thing if, as a result of the doing of the act or thing or as a result of the failure, paragraph   (a) or paragraph   (c) of that subsection applies in relation to him.



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