Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Act 1992
This Part applies to a charge payment in respect of one or more employees (the benefiting employee or benefiting employees ) that is made by or on behalf of an employer.
63A(1A)
This Part applies to a former employee as if the former employee were an employee of the person who was the former employee ' s employer.
63A(2)
In this section:
charge payment
means a payment of superannuation guarantee charge, or related penalty charge, for a quarter.
[ CCH Note: Definition of " charge payment " will be substituted by No 57 of 2025, s 3 and Sch 1 item 17, effective 1 July 2026. For application and transitional provisions, see note under s 16 . The definition will read:
]charge payment
means a payment of superannuation guarantee charge that:
(a) was assessed in relation to a QE day; or
(b) was in the form of general interest charge payable under section 49 in relation to non-payment of superannuation guarantee charge assessed in relation to a QE day.
Estimates under the Taxation Administration Act 1953
63A(3)
For the purposes of this Part, an amount paid to the Commonwealth is treated as being a payment of superannuation guarantee charge: (a) in respect of an employee or employees; and (b) made by or on behalf of an employer;
to the extent that, as a result of the amount being paid to the Commonwealth, a liability of the employer to pay superannuation guarantee charge in respect of that employee or those employees is discharged under subsection 268-20(3) , or section 269-40 , in Schedule 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953 .
Note:
Under Division 268 in that Schedule, the Commissioner may make an estimate of the unpaid and overdue amount of an employer ' s superannuation guarantee charge for a quarter.
[ CCH Note: S 63A(3) will be amended by No 57 of 2025, s 3 and Sch 1 item 18, by substituting " a QE day " for " a quarter " in the note, effective 1 July 2026. For application and transitional provisions, see note under s 16 .]
63A(4)
However, subsection (3) does not apply to the amount until the Commissioner knows which employee or employees the liability to pay the superannuation guarantee charge was in respect of.
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