Superannuation Legislation Amendment Act 2010 (117 of 2010)

Schedule 3   Superanuation and relationship breakdowns

Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993

2   After subsection 66(2A)

Insert:

Exception - breakdown of relationships

(2B) Subsection (1) does not prohibit a trustee or investment manager acquiring an asset from a related party of the fund (the acquiring fund ) if:

(a) the asset is acquired:

(i) for the benefit of a particular member of the acquiring fund; and

(ii) from a trustee or investment manager of another regulated superannuation fund (the transferring fund ); and

(b) at the time of the acquisition:

(i) the member and his or her spouse or former spouse are separated; and

(ii) there is no reasonable likelihood of cohabitation being resumed; and

(c) the acquisition occurs because of reasons directly connected with the breakdown of the relationship between the spouses or former spouses; and

(d) the asset represents the whole, or a part, of either:

(i) the member's own interests in the transferring fund; or

(ii) the member's entitlements as determined under Part VIIIB of the Family Law Act 1975 in relation to the interests of the member's spouse, or former spouse, in the transferring fund.

(2C) For the purposes of subsection (2B), the question whether the spouses, or former spouses, have separated is to be determined in the same way as it is for the purposes of section 48 of the Family Law Act 1975 (as affected by sections 49 and 50 of that Act).