Ambulance officers may elect to relinquish cover for additional benefit—the Act, s 46AN(1)(a)
40 Ambulance officers may elect to relinquish cover for additional benefit—the Act, s 46AN(1)(a)
An ambulance officer who was not an ambulance officer immediately before 12 October 2011 may elect to relinquish cover for the additional benefit within 3 months after the day on which the ambulance officer became an ambulance officer.
Despite the Act, section 22, the following provisions apply in relation to a prescribed ambulance officer—
the ambulance officer ceases to be liable to pay the additional benefit levy for any subsequent period during which the ambulance officer is not covered for the additional benefit,
STC must cease to provide the additional benefit cover of the ambulance officer on and from the date that is the first day on which the ambulance officer is covered for a death or incapacity benefit payable under the ambulance officers award,
the ambulance officer is not entitled to be covered for the additional benefit while employed as an ambulance officer.
The Secretary of the Ministry of Health may, by written notice to STC, extend the period within which an ambulance officer may elect to relinquish cover for the additional benefit.
In this section—
prescribed ambulance officer means an ambulance officer who—
elects to relinquish cover for the additional benefit in accordance with this section, or
elected to relinquish cover for the additional benefit in accordance with—
the State Authorities Superannuation Regulation 2015, section 42, or
the State Authorities Superannuation Regulation 2010, section 46.
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