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This is a Bill, not an Act. For current law, see the Acts databases.
House of Assembly—No 50
As received from the Legislative Council and read a first
time, 10 November 2003
South Australia
Southern
State Superannuation (Visiting Medical Officers) Amendment Bill 2003
A Bill For
An Act to amend the Southern State Superannuation Act
1994 and to repeal the Superannuation (Visiting Medical Officers) Act
1993.
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1 Short title
2 Commencement
3 Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Southern State Superannuation Act 1994
4 Amendment of section 3—Interpretation
5 Repeal of section 15A
6 Amendment of section 21—Basic
invalidity/death insurance
7 Amendment of section 22—Application
for additional invalidity/death insurance
8 Amendment of Schedule 3—Repeal and
Transitional Provisions
Schedule 1—Repeal of Superannuation (Visiting Medical
Officers) Act 1993
The Parliament of South Australia enacts
as follows:
This Act may be cited as the Southern State Superannuation
(Visiting Medical Officers) Amendment Act 2003.
This Act will be taken to have come into operation on 1 July 2003.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the
amendment of a specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment of Southern State Superannuation Act 1994
4—Amendment of section 3—Interpretation
(1) Section 3(1), definition of charge
percentage—after paragraph (ab) insert:
(ac) in
the case of a visiting medical officer—a percentage determined by reference to
and in accordance with the Department of Human Services Visiting Medical
Specialist (VMS) Agreement 2001 (or its successor);
(2) Section 3(1), definition of charge
percentage, (b)—delete "or (ab)"
and substitute:
, (ab) or (ac)
(3) Section 3(1)—after the definition of the
Superannuation Funds Management Corporation of South Australia insert:
teaching hospital means the Royal Adelaide Hospital, the
North Western Adelaide Health Service, the Flinders Medical Centre, the
Repatriation General Hospital, the Women's and Children's Hospital or Noarlunga Health Services;
(4) Section 3(1)—after the definition of the
Triple S scheme insert:
visiting medical officer means a person appointed as a senior
visiting medical specialist or a visiting medical specialist by the Department
of Human Services or by a teaching hospital, the Institute of Medical and
Veterinary Science or by any other hospital or health centre incorporated under
the South Australian Health Commission Act 1976 that is declared by
proclamation to be a hospital or health centre in relation to which this
definition applies.
Section 15A—delete the section
6—Amendment of section 21—Basic invalidity/death insurance
Section 21(2)—after "scheme"
insert:
solely
7—Amendment of section 22—Application for additional invalidity/death insurance
Section 22(1b)—after "scheme"
insert:
solely
8—Amendment of Schedule 3—Repeal and Transitional Provisions
Schedule 3—after clause 11 insert:
12 (1) Subject to this clause, a transferred
visiting medical officer is entitled (without being required to undergo a
medical examination) to maintain the insurance cover the member enjoyed under
the VMO Fund immediately
prior to the repeal of the Superannuation (Visiting Medical Officers) Act
1993 (subject to any adjustments that would have occurred from time to time
under the terms of that insurance).
(2) The insurance cover to which a transferred
visiting medical officer is entitled under subclause (1)—
(a) will be in substitution for invalidity/death insurance under
Part 3 Division 2 of this Act (and that Division will not apply while the
insurance cover under subclause (1) is maintained); and
(b) will, if the transferred visiting medical officer has
attained the age of 60 at the time he or she becomes a member of the scheme
(but has not yet attained the age of 65)—
(i) be available to the member despite the fact
that he or she has attained the age of 60; and
(ii) continue to be available to the member until he or she
attains the age of 65; and
(c) will be subject to premiums, determined by the Board, being
premiums that do not exceed the premiums the member was paying under the VMO Fund immediately before 1 July 2003.
(3) If
a transferred visiting medical officer suffers from a medical condition or
restriction relevant to the determination of his or her entitlements under the VMO Fund, any insurance cover to which he or she is
entitled under subclause (1) may be subject to such authorised conditions
as the Board thinks fit to impose.
(4) A
transferred visiting medical officer may apply to the Board to cancel or vary
the insurance cover provided by subclause (1) but, in such a case, the
transferred visiting medical officer will then be subject to the operation of
Part 3 Division 2 of this Act.
(5) Despite
any other provision, if an entitlement to invalidity/death insurance under the VMO Fund in respect of a transferred visiting medical
officer arises on or after 1 July 2003 and before the day on which the
retrospective commencement of the Southern State Superannuation (Visiting
Medical Officers) Amendment Act 2003 occurs, there will be no corresponding
entitlement to insurance under subclause (1).
(6) In this clause—
authorised condition means a condition authorised by the
regulations for the purposes of section 22(6);
transferred visiting medical officer means a visiting medical officer who,
immediately before 1 July 2003, was a member of the VMO
Fund;
VMO Fund means the SAHC
Visiting Medical Officers Superannuation Fund established by a trust deed dated
24 February 1983.
Schedule 1—Repeal of Superannuation (Visiting Medical Officers) Act 1993
The Superannuation (Visiting Medical Officers) Act 1993 is repealed.