Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

SUPERANNUATION ACT 1976 - SECT 6A

  (1)   Subject to subsection   (3), if:

  (a)   a person is engaged in more than one employment; and

  (b)   either:

  (i)   in relation to more than one of those employments the person is an eligible employee; or

  (ii)   in relation to any such employment, the person would, if that were the person's only employment, be an eligible employee or entitled to request that a direction be given under section   11, 13 or 14;

this Act has a separate operation in respect of the person in relation to any employment in relation to which the person is an eligible employee, or any employment mentioned in subparagraph   (b)(ii), as if that were the person's only employment.

  (2)   A separate operation of this Act given by subsection   (1) in respect of a person in relation to any employment, being a person who is, or becomes, an eligible employee in relation to that employment, continues after the person ceases to be an eligible employee.

  (3)   A person who:

  (a)   is an eligible employee and on leave of absence without pay from particular employment; and

  (b)   while on such leave engages in other employment;

is not, for the purposes of this section, because of engaging in that other employment, taken to be engaged in 2 different employments.

  (4)   If, before the commencement of this section, a person made payments in respect of any employment that would have been contributions if subsection   (1) had then been in force, that subsection is taken to have been in force in relation to that person at the time the payments were made or at such earlier time (not being a time earlier than the commencement of that employment) as CSC may determine.

  (5)   If, because of subsection   (1), this Act has a separate operation in respect of a person in relation to any employment, the person may elect, by notice in writing to CSC, that that subsection applies to him or her in respect of that employment before the commencement of this section and, where such an election is made, that subsection is taken to have been in force in relation to the person during the period of that employment.

  (6)   The regulations may make provision for modifying this Act, or a provision of this Act specified in the regulations, in the application of this Act or that provision in relation to a person in respect of whom this Act, because of subsection   (1), has an operation in relation to any employment.