Government Superannuation Fund (Increased Amount in Respect of Adjustments) Order 2004

Reprint
as at 14 May 2004

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Government Superannuation Fund (Increased Amount in Respect of Adjustments) Order 2004

(SR 2004/115)

Silvia Cartwright, Governor-General

Order in Council

At Wellington this 10th day of May 2004

Present:
Her Excellency the Governor-General in Council

Note

Changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in this reprint.

A general outline of these changes is set out in the notes at the end of this reprint, together with other explanatory material about this reprint.

This order is administered by the Treasury.

Pursuant to section 3(4) of the Government Superannuation Fund Amendment Act 1988, Her Excellency the Governor-General, acting on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council, makes the following order.

Order

1 Title

  • This order is the Government Superannuation Fund (Increased Amount in Respect of Adjustments) Order 2004.

2 Limit on increased retiring allowance payable

  • (1) The amount specified in section 3(3) of the Government Superannuation Fund Amendment Act 1988 is, with effect from 1 July 2004, increased from $500 to $1,000.

    (2) No person is entitled, by reason of the making of this order, to any increased payment in respect of any retiring allowance that was paid or is payable in respect of any period before 28 April 1988.

Diane Morcom,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Explanatory note

This note is not part of the order, but is intended to indicate its general effect.

Part 1 of the Government Superannuation Fund Amendment Act 1988 provided for certain groups of people to have their allowances adjusted to take account of increases in the cost of living from an earlier date than was previously the case. The annual rate of the retiring allowances payable to those people was, however, made subject to a limit of $500 over the annual rate that they would otherwise have been paid. With effect from 1 July 2004, this order increases that limit from $500 to $1,000.

The groups of people affected are, with certain exceptions, those—

  • to whom a retiring allowance is payable under Part 2 or Part 3 of the Government Superannuation Fund Act 1956 (which are the old schemes for public servants and the Armed Forces); and

  • who are under 60 years of age when the retiring allowance becomes or became payable.

Issued under the authority of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989.

Date of notification in Gazette: 13 May 2004.

Contents

  • 1General

  • 2Status of reprints

  • 3How reprints are prepared

  • 4Changes made under section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989

  • 5List of amendments incorporated in this reprint (most recent first)

Notes
1 General

  • This is a reprint of the Government Superannuation Fund (Increased Amount in Respect of Adjustments) Order 2004. The reprint incorporates all the amendments to the order as at 14 May 2004, as specified in the list of amendments at the end of these notes.

    Relevant provisions of any amending enactments that have yet to come into force or that contain relevant transitional or savings provisions are also included, after the principal enactment, in chronological order.

2 Status of reprints

  • Under section 16D of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989, reprints are presumed to correctly state, as at the date of the reprint, the law enacted by the principal enactment and by the amendments to that enactment. This presumption applies even though editorial changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in the reprint.

    This presumption may be rebutted by producing the official volumes of statutes or statutory regulations in which the principal enactment and its amendments are contained.

3 How reprints are prepared

  • A number of editorial conventions are followed in the preparation of reprints. For example, the enacting words are not included in Acts, and provisions that are repealed or revoked are omitted. For a detailed list of the editorial conventions, see http://www.pco.parliament.govt.nz/legislation/reprints.shtml or Part 8 of the Tables of Acts and Ordinances and Statutory Regulations, and Deemed Regulations in Force.

4 Changes made under section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989

  • Section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 authorises the making of editorial changes in a reprint as set out in sections 17D and 17E of that Act so that, to the extent permitted, the format and style of the reprinted enactment is consistent with current legislative drafting practice. Changes that would alter the effect of the legislation are not permitted.

    A new format of legislation was introduced on 1 January 2000. Changes to legislative drafting style have also been made since 1997, and are ongoing. To the extent permitted by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989, all legislation reprinted after 1 January 2000 is in the new format for legislation and reflects current drafting practice at the time of the reprint.

    In outline, the editorial changes made in reprints under the authority of section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 are set out below, and they have been applied, where relevant, in the preparation of this reprint:

    • •omission of unnecessary referential words (such as “of this section” and “of this Act”)

    • •typeface and type size (Times Roman, generally in 11.5 point)

    • •layout of provisions, including:

      • •indentation

      • •position of section headings (eg, the number and heading now appear above the section)

    • •format of definitions (eg, the defined term now appears in bold type, without quotation marks)

    • •format of dates (eg, a date formerly expressed as “the 1st day of January 1999” is now expressed as “1 January 1999”)

    • •position of the date of assent (it now appears on the front page of each Act)

    • •punctuation (eg, colons are not used after definitions)

    • •Parts numbered with roman numerals are replaced with arabic numerals, and all cross-references are changed accordingly

    • •case and appearance of letters and words, including:

      • •format of headings (eg, headings where each word formerly appeared with an initial capital letter followed by small capital letters are amended so that the heading appears in bold, with only the first word (and any proper nouns) appearing with an initial capital letter)

      • •small capital letters in section and subsection references are now capital letters

    • •schedules are renumbered (eg, Schedule 1 replaces First Schedule), and all cross-references are changed accordingly

    • •running heads (the information that appears at the top of each page)

    • •format of two-column schedules of consequential amendments, and schedules of repeals (eg, they are rearranged into alphabetical order, rather than chronological).

5 List of amendments incorporated in this reprint (most recent first)