Parliamentary Pensions Bill

Bill No. 1/1978

Read the first time on 31st January 1978.

An Act to provide for the grant of pensions and gratuities in respect of service as Members of Parliament and as holders of ministerial and other offices and for purposes connected therewith, and to repeal the Parliamentary Pensions Act (Chapter 51 of the Revised Edition).

Be it enacted by the President with the advice and consent of the Parliament of Singapore, as follows: —

PART I

PRELIMINARY

Short title and commencement

1. This Act may be cited as the Parliamentary Pensions Act, 1978, and shall come into operation on such date as the President may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint.

Interpretation

2.—(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —

“Member” means a Member of Parliament;

“office” means the office of Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister, Speaker, Senior Minister, Minister, Senior Minister of State, Minister of State, Senior Parliamentary Secretary, Parliamentary Secretary or Political Secretary;

“office-holding Member” means a Member who holds or has held any office and includes a Speaker who is not an elected Member of Parliament;

“reckonable service”, in relation to service as a Member, means service on and after the 3rd day of June 1959, in Parliament as a Member of Parliament; and in relation to service in any office, means service on and after the 3rd day of June 1959, in that office.

(2) Where a Speaker is not, or has not been, an elected Member of Parliament for any period, the expression “salary” shall, for such period, mean the salary payable to him in respect of his service as Speaker.

(3) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, where for any period a person who is eligible for any pension or other benefit under this Act voluntarily refrains from receiving the whole or any part of any salary due to him in respect of the office held by him, then, in calculating his pension or benefit he shall, for such period, be deemed to have received the full salary to which he was entitled as holder of that office.

(4) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, where for any period a person, who is eligible for any pension or other benefit under this Act, is paid a salary which is less than the full salary of the office held by him by reason of the fact that his services in that office are performed on a part-time basis, then, in calculating his pension or benefit he shall, for such period, be deemed not to have received the full salary of that office but the actual amount of salary that he was paid.

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