South Australian Repealed Acts South Australian Repealed ActsThis legislation has been repealed.
(1) Subject to this
section, a member may elect to make contributions to the Treasurer as a
deduction from salary at a whole number percentage, or at 4.5%, of the
combined value of the monetary and non-monetary salary (if any) to which the
member is entitled in each period in respect of which salary is paid to the
member.
(2) A person who is a
member of the scheme by virtue only of section 14(5), (6), (10) or (10a)
(including any combination of these provisions) is not entitled to make
contributions.
(3) A police member
must contribute at a rate of at least 4.5 per cent of salary.
(3a)
Subsection (3) does not apply to—
(a) a
police cadet; or
(b) a
police officer who is employed on a contract having a fixed term.
(4) A police cadet is
not obliged to contribute but may elect to do so.
(4a) The regulations
may require that specified members, or members of a specified class,
contribute at a prescribed rate (and the regulations may prescribe different
rates in respect of different members or different classes of member).
(5) Subject to this
section, a member who has elected to contribute may subsequently elect to
contribute at a different rate or to cease contributing.
(6) An election under
this section must be made to the Board in writing and will operate from a date
to be fixed by the Board.
(7) Where, following a
change in a member's salary, it will be difficult for an employer to determine
the amount of the member's contribution for the first payment period to which
the new contribution applies, the Board may, by notice in writing to the
employer, direct that the member's contributions will, until a date specified
in the notice, be determined in accordance with this section as in force
immediately before the commencement of the Southern State Superannuation
(Contributions) Amendment Act 2000 .
(8) A notice under
subsection (7) may be varied or revoked by the Board by subsequent notice
served on the employer.
(9) If over a
particular period a member receives (while remaining in employment) weekly
workers compensation payments for total or partial incapacity for work,
contributions will be payable as if the weekly payments were salary or a
component of salary (as the case requires).
(10) Contributions are
payable from the member's monetary salary on the days on which monetary salary
is paid to the member.
(11) A member whose
membership of the scheme commences on the commencement of the member's
employment will commence making contributions on a date fixed by the Board.