Western Australian Current Regulations

STATE SUPERANNUATION REGULATIONS 2001 - REG 79AA

79AA .         Transferred benefit, payment or transfer of

        (1)         A West State Super Member who has a transferred benefit may request the Board to —

            (a)         pay the benefit and earnings to the Member; or

            (b)         transfer the benefit and earnings to another scheme or another superannuation fund.

        (2)         The Board must comply with a request under subregulation (1)(a) unless the Board is satisfied that, if the West State Super Scheme were a regulated superannuation fund, the Board would be prevented by the SIS Regulations from paying the benefit as requested.

        (3)         The Board must comply with a request under subregulation (1)(b).

        (4)         In this regulation —

        earnings , in relation to a transferred benefit, means so much of the earnings that have been credited to the Member’s west state account since the benefit was transferred as are attributable to that benefit;

        transferred benefit means a benefit that has been transferred to the West State Super Scheme under regulation 65.

        [Regulation 79AA inserted: Gazette 8 Jul 2008 p. 3229; amended: Gazette 10 Jan 2017 p. 150.]