2. The International Enterprise Singapore Board Act is amended by inserting, immediately after Part V, the following Part:“PART VA TRANSFER OF BOARD’s UNDERTAKING TO GOVERNMENT |
Interpretation of this Part |
19A. In this Part —“appointed day” means the date of commencement of the International Enterprise Singapore Board (Amendment) Act 2003; |
“Minister” means the Minister charged with the responsibility for the Board. |
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Transfer to Government of Board’s undertaking |
19B.—(1) As from the appointed day, such movable, immovable, tangible and intangible property vested in the Board as may be determined by the Minister and used or managed by the Trade Facilitation Division and the Statistics Audit Unit of the Board, and all assets, interests, rights, privileges, liabilities and obligations of the Board relating to those departments shall be transferred to and shall vest in the Government without further assurance, act or deed.(2) If any question arises as to whether any particular property, asset, interest, right, privilege, liability or obligation has been transferred to or vested in the Government under subsection (1), a certificate under the hand of the Minister for Finance shall be conclusive evidence that the property, asset, interest, right, privilege, liability or obligation was or was not so transferred or vested. |
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19C.—(1) As from the appointed day, such persons or categories of persons as the Minister may determine who, immediately before that day, were employed by the Board and posted to its Trade Facilitation Division or Statistics Audit Unit shall be transferred to the service of the Government on terms no less favourable than those enjoyed by them immediately prior to their transfer.(2) If any question arises as to whether any person or any category of persons has been transferred to the service of the Government under subsection (1), a certificate under the hand of the Minister shall be conclusive evidence that the person or category of persons was or was not so transferred. |
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Recognition of previous length of service, etc. |
19D.—(1) The terms and conditions of service drawn up by the Government for the persons transferred to the service of the Government under section 19C shall take into account the terms and conditions of service (including salaries and accrued rights to leave) enjoyed by those persons while in the employment of the Board.(2) Any such term or condition relating to the length of service with the Government shall recognise the length of service of the persons so transferred while in the employment of the Board to be service with the Government. |
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19E. Notwithstanding any other written law or any contract, no person who is transferred from the Board to the service of the Government under section 19C shall be entitled to claim any benefit under that written law or contract for termination of his service on the ground of redundancy or abolition of his office in consequence of the transfer of the Trade Facilitation Division and the Statistics Audit Unit of the Board to the Government. |
19F. All deeds, contracts, schemes, bonds, securities, agreements, instruments and arrangements subsisting immediately before the appointed day to which the Board is a party and relating to —(a) | any property transferred to the Government under section 19B; | (b) | any person transferred to the service of the Government under section 19C; or | (c) | any matter regulated under the Regulation of Imports and Exports Act (Cap. 272A) or the Strategic Goods (Control) Act 2002 (Act 40 of 2002) by the Board, |
shall continue in force on and after that day and shall be enforceable by or against the Government as if the Government had been named therein or had been a party thereto instead of the Board. |
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Continuation, completion of disciplinary proceedings, etc. |
19G.—(1) Where, on the appointed day, any disciplinary proceedings were pending against any employee of the Board transferred to the service of the Government under section 19C, the proceedings shall be carried on and completed by the Public Service Commission.(2) The Public Service Commission may reprimand, reduce in rank, retire, dismiss or punish in some other manner a person who had, whilst he was in the employment of the Board, been guilty of any misconduct or neglect of duty which would have rendered him liable to be reprimanded, reduced in rank, retired, dismissed or punished in some other manner if he had continued to be in the employment of the Board, and if section 19C had not been enacted.”. |
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