Central Provident Fund (Amendment No. 3) Rules 2024

No. S 1035

Central Provident Fund Act 1953

Central Provident Fund
(Amendment No. 3) Rules 2024

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 77(2) of the Central Provident Fund Act 1953, the Central Provident Fund Board makes the following Rules:

Citation and commencement

1. These Rules are the Central Provident Fund (Amendment No. 3) Rules 2024 and come into operation on 1 January 2025.

Replacement of rule 3

2. In the Central Provident Fund Rules (R 3) (called in these Rules the principal Rules), replace rule 3 with —

“Registration of employer or platform operator

3.—(1) An employer or a platform operator must apply to be registered with the Board as an employer or a platform operator (as the case may be) as soon as practicable after —

(a)	the employer employs the first employee in respect of whom the employer is required by the Act to pay contributions to the Fund; or
(b)	the platform operator enters into a platform work agreement with the first platform worker in respect of whom the platform operator is required by the Act to pay contributions to the Fund.

(2) An application for registration under paragraph (1) must be made in the form and manner that the Board requires.

(3) Upon receiving the requisite form from an employer or a platform operator, the Board may register the employer or platform operator and issue —

(a)	an employer’s reference number to the employer; or
(b)	one or more platform operator’s reference numbers to the platform operator.

(4) Every registered employer or registered platform operator who ceases to be an employer or a platform operator (as the case may be) must inform the Board in writing within one month of ceasing to be an employer or a platform operator.

(5) Every employer and platform operator must immediately inform the Board in writing of any change of address.

(6) Every employer or platform operator who makes a report of the change of his residential address under section 10 of the National Registration Act 1965 is deemed to have complied with paragraph (5).”.

Amendment of rule 7

3. In the principal Rules, in rule 7 —

(a)	in paragraphs (1) and (2), after “employer”, insert “or a platform operator”;
(b)	in paragraph (3), after “employer”, insert “or platform operator”;
(c)	in paragraph (3), after “Act”, insert “or a platform worker’s platform remuneration under section 8A(6) of the Act (read with paragraph 10C(2) or 13(2) of the Fourth Schedule to the Act) (as the case may be)”; and
(d)	in paragraph (3)(b)(i), after “employee’s”, insert “or platform worker’s”.

Deletion of rule 9

4. In the principal Rules, delete rule 9.

Amendment of rule 13

5. In the principal Rules, in rule 13 —

(a)	in paragraph (a), replace “allot him” with “issue”;
(b)	in paragraph (a), replace “; and” at the end with a full‑stop; and
(c)	delete paragraph (b).

Deletion of rule 14

6. In the principal Rules, delete rule 14.

Amendment of rule 20

7. In the principal Rules, in rule 20 —

(a)	in paragraph (1), replace “and employees” with “, platform operators, employees and platform workers”;
(b)	in paragraph (1), replace “or employee” with “, platform operator, employee or platform worker”; and
(c)	in paragraph (2), replace “and employee” with “, platform operator, employee and platform worker”.

Miscellaneous amendments

8. In the principal Rules —

(a)

in the following provisions, after “employer”, insert “or platform operator”:

Rule 4

Rule 5(1) and (3)

Rule 6

Rule 26;

(b)

in the following provisions, after “employee” wherever it appears, insert “or platform worker”:

Rule 4

Rule 13;

(c)

in the following provisions, after “employees” wherever it appears, insert “or platform workers”:

Rule 5(1)

Rule 6;

(d)

in rule 11, after “employer”, insert “and platform operator”;

(e)

in rule 13, in the rule heading, after “employee”, insert “or platform worker”;

(f)

in rule 21, after “an employer”, insert “or a platform operator”; and

(g)

in rule 21, after “the employer”, insert “or platform operator”.

Saving and transitional provision

9. Despite rule 2, if on 1 January 2025 a platform operator has a platform work agreement entered into before that date with any platform worker, in respect of whom the platform operator is required by the Act to pay contributions after that date, the platform operator must apply to be registered with the Board as a platform operator as soon as practicable on or after that date.

[G.N. Nos. S 680/2006; S 475/2010; S 268/2012; S 36/2015; S 786/2015; S 661/2016; S 121/2022; S 557/2024; S 714/2024]

Made on 18 December 2024.

YONG YING-I

Chairperson,
Central Provident Fund Board,
Singapore.

[Plg&Pol/CPFPol/Legis/CPFSL/2024; AG/LEGIS/SL/36/2020/23]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 78(2) of the Central Provident Fund Act 1953).

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