Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

MILITARY SUPERANNUATION AND BENEFITS ACT 1991 - SECT 3

             (1)  In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:

"associate benefit" means a benefit that is payable under provisions of the Trust Deed that are authorised by section 5A.

"Board" means the Military Superannuation and Benefits Board of Trustees No. 1 established by section 18, as in force before its repeal by item 110 of Schedule 1 to the Superannuation Legislation (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Act 2011 .

"CSC" (short for Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation) has the same meaning as in the Governance of Australian Government Superannuation Schemes Act 2011 .

"DFRDB Act" means the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act 1973 .

"Fund" means the fund established, and vested in the Board, by the Trust Deed.

Note:          From 1 July 2011, the fund is vested in CSC.

"Rules" means the Rules for the administration of the Scheme set out in the Schedule to the Trust Deed.

"Scheme" means the superannuation scheme established by the Trust Deed.

"Trust Deed" means the deed referred to in section 4 and includes that deed as subsequently amended under section 5.

             (2)  Unless the contrary intention appears, a word or expression:

                     (a)  defined, for the purposes of the Rules, in Schedule 1 to the Rules; and

                     (b)  used in a provision of this Act other than the Deed;

has in that provision the same meaning as it has in the Rules.