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SUPERANNUATION ACT 1976 - SECT 156

Recovery of unpaid contributions etc.

  (1)   An amount payable to CSC under this Act, including an amount of unpaid contributions, may be paid to CSC in a lump sum or in such instalments and at such times as CSC approves.

  (2)   An amount payable to CSC under this Act, including an amount of unpaid contributions, may be recovered by CSC in a court of competent jurisdiction as a debt due and payable to CSC.

  (3)   The amount of any unpaid contributions payable by a person to CSC may be deducted from any payment or payments of benefit payable under this Act to or in respect of the person.

  (4)   Where, for any reason (including the making of, or cancellation of, an election under this Act), CSC has paid an amount of benefit that is not payable, or has become not payable, the amount so paid may be recovered by CSC in a court of competent jurisdiction as a debt due and payable to CSC.

  (5)   Where, for any reason (including the making of, or cancellation of, an election under this Act), CSC has paid an amount of benefit that is not payable, or has become not payable, and the person to whom that amount was paid is receiving, or is entitled to receive, a benefit, that amount, or such part of that amount as CSC determines, may, if CSC in its discretion so directs, be recovered by deduction from that benefit.

  (6)   In subsections   (4) and (5), benefit includes pension or other moneys payable under the superseded Act.



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