This Act may be cited as the Superannuation Amendment Act 1967, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Superannuation Act 1956 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Compulsory membership of training college students

Section 22a of the principal Act (as inserted by section 3 of the Superannuation Amendment Act 1963) is hereby amended by omitting from subsection (3) the words “Division B”, and substituting the words “the Special Division”.

3 Staff of New Zealand High Commission Office, London

The principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after the said section 22a, the following section:

“22b

“(1)

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in section 22 of this Act, every person who, at any time after the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and sixty-eight, is appointed under subsection (1) of section 8 of the External Affairs Act 1943 to assist the High Commissioner for New Zealand in the United Kingdom shall become a contributor to the Fund subject to this section from the date of his appointment or from the date on which he attains the age of seventeen years, whichever is the later.

“(2)

Any person who is employed immediately before the first day of April, nineteen hundred and sixty-eight, under subsection (1) of section 8 of the External Affairs Act 1943 to assist the said High Commissioner or who is employed by the said High Commissioner at any time under subsection (2) of that section, and who is not a contributor to the Fund, may, subject to section 22 of this Act, at any time after the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and sixty-eight, elect to become a contributor to the Fund; and he shall thereupon become a contributor subject to this section.

“(3)

Any person who is employed under subsection (1) of section 8 of the External Affairs Act 1943 to assist the said High Commissioner, or who is employed by the said High Commissioner under subsection (2) of that section, and who is a contributor to the Fund on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and sixty-eight, may, at any time thereafter if he is still a contributor, elect to be a contributor subject to this section.

“(4)

The provisions of sections 28 and 41 of this Act shall not apply to any person who is a contributor subject to this section.

“(5)

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in section 42 of this Act, there shall be deducted from any refund of contributions and interest (if any) payable pursuant to that section to any contributor subject to this section such amount as would have been deductible under subsection (2) of section 378 of the Income Tax Act 1952 of the Parliament of the United Kingdom or any subsequent enactment passed in amendment thereof or in substitution therefor if that section or enactment applied to that contributor.”

4 Education Board employees

(1)

Section 23a of the principal Act (as inserted by section 3(1) of the Superannuation Amendment Act 1964) is hereby amended by inserting in subsection (1), after the words “State Services Act 1962”, the words “or who is an Education Board employee to whom this section applies”.

(2)

The said section 23a of the principal Act is hereby further amended by inserting, after subsection (4), the following subsection:

“(4a)

An election under this section by an Education Board employee to whom this section applies shall be made before the contributor attains the age of fifty years or before the expiration of three years from the date of the commencement of his current period of employment by an Education Board, whichever is the earlier:

“Provided that, where the contributor’s current period of employment by an Education Board commenced before the first day of December, nineteen hundred and sixty-seven, any election under this section shall be made before the date on which he attains the age of forty years or the first day of December, nineteen hundred and seventy, whichever is the earlier.”

(3)

The said section 23a of the principal Act is hereby further amended by adding the following subsection:

“(8)

The Education Board employees to whom this section applies shall be those whose conditions of employment are not for the time being fixed by any award of the Court of Arbitration, or by any industrial agreement entered into under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1954, or by any order made by the Court of Arbitration under section 13 of the Apprentices Act 1948, or by any teachers determination within the meaning of the Education Act 1964, or by any teachers order within the meaning of the Government Service Tribunal Act 1965, or by the Education (Salaries and Staffing) Regulations 1957.

(4)

Section 35 of the principal Act (as substituted by section 8(1) of the Superannuation Amendment Act 1962 and amended by section 5 of the Superannuation Amendment Act 1964) is hereby amended by inserting in paragraph (c) of subsection (3), after the words “nineteen hundred and sixty-four”, the words “or who became an Education Board employee to whom section 23a of this Act applies after the thirtieth day of November, nineteen hundred and sixty-seven”.

5 Retiring allowance for women Police

Section 35 of the principal Act (as substituted by section 8(1) of the Superannuation Amendment Act 1962) is hereby further amended by inserting, after subsection (5), the following subsection:

“(5a)

Subsection (5) of this section shall apply, in relation to any female contributor who is a member of the Police of New Zealand, as if every reference, in subparagraphs (i), (ii), (iii), and (iv) of paragraph (a), in subparagraphs (i), (ii), (iii), and (iv) of paragraph (b), and in subparagraphs (i) and (ii) of paragraph (c), of the said subsection (5), to the first day of April, nineteen hundred and sixty-two, were a reference to the first day of November, nineteen hundred and sixty-five, and as if every reference in those subparagraphs to the first day of April, nineteen hundred and sixty-five, were a reference to the first day of November, nineteen hundred and sixty-eight.”

6 Teachers and education administrators serving in Pacific area

(1)

The principal Act is hereby amended by repealing section 54, and substituting the following section:

“54

“(1)

Subject to the consent of the Board in each case, service (whether before or after the passing of this section) as a teacher or an education administrator in any country or territory within the area of the Pacific, being a country or territory for which the New Zealand Government undertakes to recruit teachers or education administrators, shall, for the purposes of this Part of this Act, be deemed to be employment in the Education service in the case of every person who, immediately before the date on which his service there commenced, was a contributor to the Fund or to any Superannuation Fund abolished by the Superannuation Act 1947.

“(2)

For the purposes of this section the term ‘education administrator’ means an officer responsible for the planning or the control of an education service.”

(2)

Section 49 of the Finance Act 1938 is hereby repealed.

7 Interest on refund of contributions to permanent members of regular forces

Section 63 of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from paragraph (d) of subsection (3) the word “eight”, and substituting the word “twelve”.

8 Judges’ Superannuation Account

(1)

The principal Act is hereby amended by repealing section 81, and substituting the following section:

“81

“(1)

All contributions payable under this Part of this Act shall be paid into a special account within the Government Superannuation Fund to be called the Judges’ Superannuation Account:

“Provided that Judges shall not thereby become contributors to the Government Superannuation Fund for the purposes of any other Part of this Act.

“(2)

All retiring allowances, annuities, refunds of contributions, and other amounts payable under this Part of this Act shall be paid out of the Judges’ Superannuation Account; and where in any year the money in the Judges’ Superannuation Account is insufficient to meet all such payments, the deficiency shall be met by a payment from the Consolidated Revenue Account without further appropriation than this section.”

(2)

This section shall be deemed to have come into force on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and sixty-five.

9 Treatment of contributory service under one Part of the Act as contributory service under another Part

The principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after section 89, the following section:

“89a

“(1)

Except as otherwise provided in this Act, any contributor under one Part of this Act who becomes eligible to contribute, or is required to contribute, under another Part of this Act shall, if he so elects, be entitled to have his contributory service under the one Part treated as contributory service under the other Part upon such terms and conditions, including terms and conditions as to the credit to be given for the contributory service so treated, as may be prescribed by regulations made under section 97 of this Act.

“(2)

Any such regulations may be made to come into force before or after the date of the making thereof or on that date; and any such regulations that are made to come into force before the date of the making thereof may be made to come into force before or after the date of the commencement of this section or on that date.”

10 Police and Prisons Service contributors

The Superannuation Amendment Act 1962 is hereby amended by repealing subsection (2) of section 18.

This Act is administered in the Treasury.

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