Pensions (Amendment) Bill

Bill No. 17/1986

Read the first time on 29th July 1986.

An Act to amend the Pensions Act (Chapter 55 of the Revised Edition).

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

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Pensions (Amendment) Act 1986.

Amendment of section 3

2. Section 3 of the Pensions Act is amended by inserting, immediately after subsection (1), the following subsection:

“(1A) The President may, in making regulations under this section, provide for any officer or class of officers holding pensionable offices to opt for the provident fund scheme applicable to non-pensionable employees of the Government under the Central Provident Fund Act (Cap. 121) and for the terms and conditions of such option.”.

Amendment of section 7

3. Section 7 of the Pensions Act is amended by deleting subsection (5) and substituting the following subsection:

“(5) For the purposes of subsection (4), “minimum age” means —

(a)

in the case of an officer who is entitled to retire at the age of 45 years — 45 years;

(b)

in the case of an officer appointed to the public service before the commencement of the Pensions (Amendment) Act 1986 other than an officer referred to in paragraph (a) — 50 years; and

(c)

in the case of an officer appointed to the public service on or after the commencement of the Pensions (Amendment) Act 1986 other than an officer referred to in paragraph (a) —

(i)	50 years if he is entitled to retire at the age of 50 or 55 years; and
(ii)	55 years if he is entitled to retire at the age of 60 years.”.

Amendment of section 8

4. The Pensions Act is amended by renumbering section 8 as subsection (1) of that section, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following subsection:

“(2) Where in the exercise of its powers of disciplinary control over public officers the Public Service Commission has ordered an officer to be retired in the public interest, the officer’s service shall be deemed to have been terminated under subsection (1).”.

Amendment of section 16

5. Section 16 of the Pensions Act is amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately after the words “pensionable office” in subsection (1)(a), the words “who has not exercised an option mentioned in section 3(1A)”;

(b)

by inserting, immediately after paragraph (a) of subsection (1), the following paragraph:

“(b)

in the case of an officer holding a pensionable office who has exercised an option mentioned in section 3(1A), one year’s salary as at the date immediately prior to his option taking effect or the commuted pension gratuity which might have been granted to the officer if he had retired at the date of his death in the circumstances described in section 7(2)(c), whichever is the greater;”;

(c)

by re-lettering the existing paragraph (b) as paragraph (c);

(d)

by inserting, immediately after the words “pensionable office” in the sixth line of subsection (2), the words “who has not exercised an option mentioned in section 3(1A)”; and

(e)

by inserting, immediately after the word “gratuity” in the definition of “one year’s salary” in subsection (5), the words “, or in the case of an officer holding a pensionable office who has exercised an option mentioned in section 3(1A) any pension, which may be”.

Amendment of section 18

6. Section 18 of the Pensions Act is amended —

(a)

by deleting the word “The” in subsection (1) and substituting the words “Subject to subsection (3), the”; and

(b)

by inserting, immediately after subsection (2), the following subsection:

“(3) Unless otherwise expressly provided, the provisions of this Act shall not apply —

(a)	to all officers appointed on or after 1st April 1986 to the public service in Singapore except officers who are appointed to such schemes of service as may be designated by the President; and
(b)	to all officers appointed on or after 1st December 1972 to any office in the public service in Singapore being an office designated as falling within Division III or IV, except officers who are so appointed to the Police (Junior) and the Narcotics schemes of service.”.

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