This Act should be read in together with the Māori Language Amendment Act 1991

Māori Language Act 1987 176
Commenced: 1 Aug 1987

SECOND SCHEDULE: Provisions Relating to Te Komihana Mo Te Reo Māori

Superannuation or retiring allowances

10. Superannuation or retiring allowances---(1) For the purposes of providing a superannuation fund or retiring allowance for any of the officers or employees of the Commission or for the Chairman of the Commission, sums by way of subsidy may from time to time be paid into any scheme under the National Provident Fund Act 1950 containing provision for employer subsidy or into any other employer-subsidised scheme approved by the Minister of Finance for the purposes of this clause.

(2) Notwithstanding anything in this Act, any person who, immediately before becoming an officer or employee of the Commission or a member of the Commission, is a contributor to the Government Superannuation Fund under Part II of the Government Superannuation Fund Act 1956 shall be deemed for the purposes of that Act to be employed in the Government service so long as that person continues to be an officer or employee of the Commission or a member of the Commission; and that Act shall apply to that person in all respects as if that person's service as such an officer or employee or as such a member were Government service.

(3) Subject to the Government Superannuation Fund Act 1956, nothing in subclause (2) of this clause shall entitle any such person to become a contributor to the Government Superannuation Fund after the person has once ceased to be a contributor.

(4) For the purposes of applying the Government Superannuation Fund Act 1956, in accordance with subclause (2) of this clause, to a person who is in the service of the Commission, whether as an officer or employee or as a member, and is a contributor to the Government Superannuation Fund, the term "controlling authority'', in relation to any such person, means the Commission.

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