(1)  For the purposes of these regulations, the employer component of a benefit to be paid by the Minister or a prescribed authority is, subject to subregulation (2) , five-sevenths.

(2)  The Minister may, on advice from the Actuary and by notice published in the Gazette , determine that the employer component of a benefit to be paid by the Minister or a prescribed authority is to be such proportion as is specified in the notice.

(3)  A notice under this regulation –

(a) may have effect in respect of a class of benefits specified in the notice; and

(b) may have effect as from a date specified in the notice; and

(c) is not a statutory rule for the purposes of the Rules Publication Act 1953 .