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SUPERANNUATION GUARANTEE (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1992 - SECT 24

Certain benefit certificates presumed to be certificates in relation to complying superannuation scheme

  (1)   Subject to subsection   ( 4), a benefit certificate that has effect in relation to a superannuation scheme (being a scheme to which an employer has contributed for the benefit of an employee) for the whole or a part of a quarter is, for the purposes of section   2 2, conclusively presumed, in relation to the employer, to be a certificate that has effect in relation to a complying superannuation scheme for the whole, or that part, as the case may be, of the quarter if:

  (a)   within 30 days of the starting day in relation to that certificate, the employer obtains a written statement, provided by or on behalf of the trustee of the scheme, that the scheme:

  (i)   is a resident regulated superannuation fund within the meaning of the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993 ; and

  (ii)   is not subject to a direction under section   63 of the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993 ; and

  (iii)   has not been subject to such a direction at any time since the beginning of the day on which the benefit certificate is expressed to take effect; or

  (b)   in an earlier quarter , the employer has obtained a statement of the kind referred to in paragraph   ( a).

  (2)   Subject to subsection   ( 4), a benefit certificate that has effect in relation to a superannuation scheme (being a scheme to which an employer has contributed for the benefit of an employee) for the whole or a part of a quarter is, if the employer obtains a statement of the kind referred to in paragraph   ( 1)(a):

  (a)   within the quarter ; but

  (b)   later than 30 days after the starting day in relation to that certificate;

for the purposes of section   2 2, conclusively presumed, in relation to the employer, to be a certificate that has effect in relation to a complying superannuation scheme for the period commencing on the day on which the employer obtains the statement and ending on the last day of the quarter .

  (4)   A presumption relating to a benefit certificate under subsection   ( 1) or (2) is not, in relation to an employer and a superannuation scheme, effective in respect of any period for which the scheme is not a resident regulated superannuation fund within the meaning of the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993 or is operating in contravention of a regulatory provision, as defined in section   38A of that Act if, in that period:

  (a)   the employer:

  (i)   is the trustee or manager of the scheme; or

  (ii)   has an association, within the meaning of section   318 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 , with the trustee or the manager of the scheme; and

  (b)   the employer has reasonable grounds for believing that the scheme is not a resident regulated superannuation fund within the meaning of the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993 or is operating in contravention of a regulatory provision, as defined in section   38A of that Act.

  (4A)   Section   39 of the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993 applies for the purposes of subsection   ( 4) of this section in a corresponding way to the way in which it applies for the purposes of Division   2 of Part   5 of that Act.

  (5)   In this section:

"starting day" means:

  (a)   in relation to a benefit certificate that has effect in relation to a superannuation scheme for the whole of a quarter--the first day of the quarter; or

  (b)   in relation to a benefit certificate that has effect in relation to a superannuation scheme for a part of a quarter--the first day in the quarter for which the benefit certificate has effect.


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