Retirement Savings Accounts Regulations 1997

For paragraph 1.07(1)(c), a benefit meets the standards of this regulation if, under the applicable terms or conditions of the RSA, the pension cannot be commuted, in whole or in part, except in the following circumstances:

the commutation results from the death of the pensioner or a reversionary pensioner;

the sole purpose of the commutation is:

to pay a superannuation contributions surcharge; or

to give effect to an entitlement of a non‑member spouse under a payment split; or

to meet the rights of a client to return a financial product under Division 5 of Part 7.9 of the Corporations Act 2001;

for a commutation in part—the account balance of the pension, immediately after the commutation, is equal to or greater than the minimum payment amount calculated in accordance with Schedule 5, as reduced by the amount of payments (excluding amounts paid by way of commutation) to the pensioner already made in the financial year in which the commutation occurs;

the pension has paid, in the financial year in which the commutation takes place, at least the minimum amount prescribed by subregulation (2).

For paragraph (1)(d), the minimum amount is the amount calculated using the formula:

begins on:

if the pension commenced in the financial year in which the commutation is to take place—the commencement day; or

otherwise—1 July in that financial year; and

ends on the day on which the commutation is to take place.