Requirements for Electronic Portability Form (EPF) Specifications

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REQUIREMENTS FOR ELECTRONIC PORTABILITY FORM (EPF) SPECIFICATIONS

PURPOSE

The purpose of this document is to set out the requirements for the Electronic Portability Form (EPF) specifications and message payloads.

Specifications for the EPF are at Attachment 1.

BACKGROUND

The EPF is an outbound message sent by the ATO to a superannuation fund, a retirement savings account (RSA) provider or an intermediary acting on behalf of a fund or a RSA provider, to notify the entity of a member’s election to rollover their whole superannuation benefit balance to another superannuation fund or RSA provider. The ATO will implement and begin sending the EPF in this format on 13 April 2015.

Reference to Published Standard

Reference: Schedule 4b document Data and Payment Standards – Rollover Message Implementation Guide (MIG). The EPF is not in scope for this MIG and guidance is required for the message Specifications. The EPF will re-use the message content tables and context specifications used in the Initiate Rollover Request section of the MIG.

RECOMMENDED GUIDANCE

Funds should be able to receive EPF in this format by 13 April 2015. ATTACHMENT 1 – ELECTRONIC PORTABILITY FORM (EPF) MESSAGE SPECIFICATION

Explanatory notes: . The Standard applies to the Electronic Portability Form (EPF) sent by the ATO to notify a superannuation fund, RSA provider or intermediary of a member’s election to rollover their whole superannuation balance. . The EPF message will re-use the Message Content Tables for the Initiate Rollover Request message. . There is no automated business response message to an EPF. If a registered superannuation entity experiences errors with the message content returned in the XBRL message for EPF, the fund must contact the transferring member directly. If a registered superannuation entity experiences errors with the receipt or validation of the message they should contact the ATO at [email protected] 1.1 MESSAGE TRANSPORT LINKAGES

Linkage Attribute Instructions / Rules Rule Imp Msg code

1. Mandatory – value must be Service “http://sbr.gov.au/service/Rollover/ N/A N/A 1.0”. 1. Mandatory. Action N/A N/A 2. This value MUST be “ElectronicPortabilityForm”. This value MUST identify the entity undertaking the "TransferringFund" role of the Rollover process. Where the entity To N/A N/A can be identified by a USI, a USI MUST be used as the TO PartyID, otherwise the ABN of the entity MUST be used. From This will be the ABN of the ATO. N/A N/A 1. Mandatory.

2. Property name MUST be “TargetABN”. 1.MIG

Property 3. This MUST be the same value 2.MIG N/A as that provided in the TransferringSuperFundABNDimen 3.MIG sion within the Member Rollover Transaction context for this message. 1. Conditional. Mandatory if a value has been provided for the TransferringSuperannuationFundU niqueSuperannuationIdentifierDim ension within the Member Rollover Transaction context for this message. 1.MIG 2. Property name MUST be “TargetUniqueSuperannuationIden 2.MIG Property tifier”. N/A 3.MIG 3. This MUST be the same value as that provided in the TransferringSuperannuationFundU niqueSuperannuationIdentifierDim ension within the Member Rollover Transaction context for this message. 1.MIG N/A Property 1. Mandatory. This property will designate the ABN of the fund into 2.MIG which the member has requested that their benefit be rolled over. 3.MIG Linkage Attribute Instructions / Rules Rule Imp Msg code

Property 3. This MUST be the same value 2.MIG N/A as that provided in the TransferringSuperFundABNDimen 3.MIG sion within the Member Rollover Transaction context for this message. 1. Conditional. Mandatory if a value has been provided for the TransferringSuperannuationFundU niqueSuperannuationIdentifierDim ension within the Member Rollover Transaction context for this message. 1.MIG 2. Property name MUST be “TargetUniqueSuperannuationIden 2.MIG Property tifier”. N/A 3.MIG 3. This MUST be the same value as that provided in the TransferringSuperannuationFundU niqueSuperannuationIdentifierDim ension within the Member Rollover Transaction context for this message.

2. Property name MUST be “SourceABN”. 3. This value MUST be set to the ABN of the Party undertaking the “ReceivingFund” role of the Initiate Linkage Attribute Instructions / Rules Rule Imp Msg code

Rollover process. 1.MIG N/A Property 1. Optional. This property will designate the Unique 2.MIG Superannuation Identifier into which the member has requested 3.MIG Linkage Attribute Instructions / Rules Rule Imp Msg code

that their benefit be rolled over. 2. Property name MUST be “SourceUniqueSuperannuationIde ntifier”. 3. This value MUST be set to the Linkage Attribute Instructions / Rules Rule Imp Msg code

Unique Superannuation Identifier of the Party undertaking the "ReceivingFund" role of the Initiate Rollover process. 1.2 XBRL CONTEXT SPECIFICATIONS

The context specifications to be used in this message are identical to those specified in Section 4.3 Initiate Rollover Request Message Specification in the Rollover MIG.

1.3 MESSAGE CONTENT TABLES

The message content tables to be used in this message are identical to those specified in Section 4.4 Initiate Rollover Request Message Specification in the Rollover MIG.