Planning (Amendment) Ordinance

Bill No. 188/1963

Read the first time on 5th April 1963.
An Ordinance to amend the Planning Ordinance, 1959 (No. 12 of 1959).
Be it enacted by the Yang di-Pertuan Negara with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Singapore, as follows: —
Short title and commencement
1.  This Ordinance may be cited as the Planning (Amendment) Ordinance, 1963, and shall come into operation on such date as the Yang di-Pertuan Negara may by notification in the Gazette appoint.
Amendment of section 5
2.  Section 5 of the Planning Ordinance, 1959, is hereby amended —
(a)by deleting the words “on the permanent establishment” appearing in the second line of subsection (1) thereof; and
(b)by deleting subsections (2), (3) and (4) thereof and substituting therefor the following: —
(2)  The service under the Singapore Improvement Trust of every person transferred to the service of the Government under subsection (1) of this section shall be deemed to have been service under the Government for the purposes of and subject to the provisions of the Pensions Ordinance, 1956 (Ord. 22 of 1956).
(3)  Until other provision is made, the Municipal (Provident Fund) Rules, 1956, as from time to time amended, shall continue to apply to every person transferred to the service of the Government under subsection (1) of this section who, immediately prior to the coming into operation of this Ordinance, was a member of the Municipal Provident Fund, or would have been eligible for membership of the said Fund if he had attained the age of twenty years and had passed a medical examination of the standard prescribed, in the like manner as the said Rules applied to such persons prior to the coming into operation of this Ordinance, and every reference to service or employment with the City Council in the said Rules shall be construed as a reference to service or employment with the Government in respect of such persons.
[G.N. Nos. S 179/56 S 201/56]
(4)  Until other provision is made, the provisions of the Municipal (Provident Fund) Rules, 1956, as from time to time amended, requiring the City Council to make payments into the Municipal Provident Fund shall apply to the Government and be construed as provisions requiring the Government to make payments into the said Fund in respect of every person referred to in subsection (3) of this section who is or who becomes a member of the said Fund.
(5)  Persons who have been transferred to the service of the Government under subsection (1) of this section may count their previous service in the Singapore Improvement Trust, and their previous membership of the Municipal Provident Fund and their contributions to the said Fund, for the purpose of determining the benefits to which they become entitled under this section.”.