Retirements Benefits Fund Board v Elmore

• 1. Superannuation
  2. › Benefits
  3. › Matters affecting entitlement to and payment of
  4. › Temporary employee
  5. › Right to become contributor to scheme if certificate issued by employer stating likely to remain in employment for at least three years
  6. › Whether certificate required guarantee or near certainty of employment or merely likelihood
  7. › Retirement Benefits Act 1982 (Tas), s 5
• 1. Superannuation
  2. › Benefits
  3. › Matters affecting entitlement to and payment of
  4. › Power of Fund to reinstate lost rights
  5. › Whether temporary employee lost a right, privilege or benefit otherwise than through own fault
  6. › Whether contingent eligibility to elect to become contributor constitutes a right, privilege or benefit
  7. › Retirement Benefits Regulations 2005 (Tas), regs 123, 127
• 1. Statutory Interpretation
  2. › Beneficial legislation
  3. › Remedial construction
  4. › Interpretation to give fullest relief which fair meaning of language allows
  5. › Whether word 'likely' in s 5(1) governed construction of 'will be continuously employed' in s 5(2)
  6. › Retirement Benefits Act 1982 (Tas), s 5

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