Superannuation Act 1922

A person to whom this Part applies shall contribute to the Fund from the date on which he becomes employed by the Commonwealth or, where he is employed by an approved authority, by that authority, and, if he is not an employee, he shall be deemed to be an employee, for the purposes of this Act, on and after that date.

Section 5 does not apply to a person to whom this Part applies.

Subject to section 113, a person to whom this Part applies shall contribute to the Fund for so many units of pension (including, where necessary, a fraction of a unit) as the Board determines will entitle that person to benefits equivalent to those to which he would have been entitled if his contributions to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund had been contributions to the Superannuation Fund based on a retiring age of sixty years.

The amount of contribution to be paid fortnightly by a person to whom this Part applies for the units of pension for which he is required to contribute under subsection (3) is the amount which, immediately before he ceased to be a member of the Defence Force, he was contributing, in respect of each fortnightly period, to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund, and, for the purposes of this Act, contributions in respect of those units shall be deemed to be made at rates based on a retiring age of sixty years.

In the application of subsection (1) of section 46, and of subsection (1) of section 47, of this Act to the pension of a widow of a person to whom this Part applies and who made an election under subsection (6) of section 47, or subsection (4) of section 48, of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1959, the reference in paragraph (a) of each of the two first‑mentioned subsections to five‑eighths of the pension for which her husband was contributing at the time of his death, or that was payable to her husband at the time of his death, as the case may be, shall be read as a reference to one‑half of that pension.