Public Service (Special and Senior Personnel Boards) Order

Constitution of the Republic of Singapore

(Article 110D(1), (2), and (4))

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REVISED EDITION 1996

(15th May 1996)

[1st January 1995]

Citation

1. This Order may be cited as the Public Service (Special and Senior Personnel Boards) Order.

Definitions

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

“General Services” means those Services other than —

(a)	the Accounting Service;
(b)	the Administrative Service and the Administrative (Foreign Service Branch) Service;
(c)	the Auditing Service;
(d)	the Civil Defence Service;
(e)	the Dental Service;
(f)	the Education Service;
(g)	the Environmental Health Officer Service;
(h)	the Health Therapist Service;
(i)	the Immigration (Senior) Service;
(j)	the Information Service;
(k)	the Legal Assistant Service;
(m)	the Medical Service;
(n)	the Meteorological Service;
(o)	the Narcotics Service;
(p)	the Nursing Service;
(q)	the Senior Parks and Recreation Service;
(r)	the Pharmacy (Technicians) Service;
(s)	the Police (Senior) Service;
(t)	the Prisons Service;
(u)	the Psychology Service;
(v)	the Statistical (Senior) Service;
(w)	the Statistical (Intermediate) Service; and
(x)	the Surveying Service;

“Ministry” includes every Division and department of a Ministry;

“Personnel Board” means the Special Personnel Board or a Senior Personnel Board established by this Order;

“promotion” means the substantive upgrading from one grade to a higher grade within the Scheme of Service of the officer concerned;

“public officer” or “officer” means a public officer in Division I but excludes the following officers:

(a)	an officer in the Singapore Legal Service;
(b)	an officer in the Singapore Armed Forces;
(c)	a member of the personal staff of the President; and
(d)	a member of the staff of Parliament;

“security agency” means —

(a)	the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau;
(b)	the Internal Security Department of the Ministry of Home Affairs; or
(c)	the Security and Intelligence Division of the Ministry of Defence;

“Service” means any group of officers recruited or appointed under and in accordance with the provisions of any Scheme of Service;

“timescale officer” means a public officer holding an appointment below Superscale grade in his Scheme of Service;

“transfer” means a transfer, whether or not involving an increase in salary, of a public officer —

(a)	from one Service to another Service; or
(b)	in any of the General Services from one post in a Ministry or Organ of State to a post in another Ministry or Organ of State.

(2) For the purposes of this Order, an officer who is employed on secondment in a post in a Ministry or Organ of State shall not be regarded as an officer holding a post in that Ministry or Organ of State.

Establishment of Personnel Boards

3. There are hereby established Personnel Boards in respect of each of the classes of public officers specified in the second column of the Schedule.

Members of Personnel Boards

4. Each Personnel Board shall comprise the members specified in the third column of the Schedule in relation thereto, being persons appointed by the President pursuant to Article 110D(4) of the Constitution.

Functions of Personnel Boards

5.—(1) The Special Personnel Board shall have the jurisdiction and power to —

(a)	appoint officers in the class specified in the second column of the Schedule in relation thereto, except officers in the Administrative Service or Administrative (Foreign Service Branch) Service;
(b)	confirm and emplace on the permanent or pensionable establishment all officers in the class specified in the second column of the Schedule in relation thereto;
(c)	promote all officers in that class to the grades of Superscale H to E1, including considering and recommending to the Public Service Commission, the Education Service Commission or the Police and Civil Defence Services Commission, as the case may be, an officer in that class for promotion to Superscale D and beyond; and
(d)	transfer all officers in that class, except officers in the Administrative Service and the Administrative (Foreign Service Branch) Service.

(2) Each Senior Personnel Board shall have the jurisdiction and power to —

(a)	appoint officers in the class specified in the second column of the Schedule in relation to that Senior Personnel Board;
(b)	confirm and emplace on the permanent or pensionable establishment officers in that class;
(c)	promote officers in that class, including considering and recommending to the Special Personnel Board an officer in that class for promotion to Superscale grade; and
(d)	transfer officers in that class, except that the transfer of an officer from a Service or post under the jurisdiction of a Senior Personnel Board to a Service or post under the jurisdiction of another Senior Personnel Board shall be made by the latter Senior Personnel Board.

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