Home Affairs Uniformed Services (INVEST Plan) (Amendment) Regulations 2021

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 15 Mar 2021

No. S 159

Home Affairs Uniformed Services
Superannuation Act

(CHAPTER 126B)

Home Affairs Uniformed Services
(INVEST Plan) (Amendment)
Regulations 2021

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 3 of the Home Affairs Uniformed Services Superannuation Act, the Minister for Home Affairs makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations are the Home Affairs Uniformed Services (INVEST Plan) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 and come into operation on 15 March 2021.

Amendment of regulation 9

2. Regulation 9 of the Home Affairs Uniformed Services (INVEST Plan) Regulations (Rg 2) (called in these Regulations the principal Regulations) is amended by inserting, immediately after the words “other than” in paragraph (e), the words “no‑pay maternity leave,”.

Amendment of regulation 12A

3. Regulation 12A of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting paragraph (2) and substituting the following paragraphs:

“(2) Without limiting paragraph (1), the Board may cause a further transition payment to be credited into the Retirement Account of a member described in that paragraph if —

(a)

the member’s Retirement Account is about to close under regulation 15 because the member —

(i)	retires from the service but not because of disciplinary proceedings;
(ii)	resigns from the service to join the employment of a statutory body with the approval of the Ministry of Home Affairs;
(iii)	is transferred from the service to another scheme of service in the public service except the Administrative Service, unless the transfer is at the member’s request; or
(iv)	dies in service; or

(b)

the member’s Retirement Account remains open but contributions to the Retirement Account cease under regulation 19(1)(a) or 19B(1)(a) (as the case may be) because the member —

(i)	transfers from the service to the Administrative Service, unless the transfer is at the member’s request; or
(ii)	is transferred under any written law from the service to the employment of a statutory body.

(3) The further transition payment mentioned in paragraph (2) for the year that a member retires or transfers from the service or dies in service may be pro‑rated according to the proportion the following period (whichever is applicable) bears to the whole year:

(a)	the period of the member’s reckonable service starting 1 January of that year to the date immediately before the date of the member’s retirement (both dates inclusive);
(b)	the period of the member’s reckonable service starting 1 January of that year to the date immediately before the date of the member’s transfer (both dates inclusive);
(c)	the period of the member’s reckonable service starting 1 January of that year to the date of the member’s death (both dates inclusive).

(4) The Board may determine different amounts of the transition payments mentioned in paragraphs (1) and (2) for different members.”.

Amendment of regulation 15

4. Regulation 15 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting paragraph (2A).

Amendment of regulation 19

5. Regulation 19(1) of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)	by deleting the words “before 1 January 2019” in sub‑paragraph (c)(i) and substituting the words “to another scheme of service in the public service before 1 January 2019 or to the Administrative Service on or after that date”; and
(b)	by inserting, immediately after the words “1 January 2019” in sub‑paragraph (c)(ii), the words “to another scheme of service in the public service except the Administrative Service”.

New regulations 23C and 23D

6. The principal Regulations are amended by inserting, immediately after regulation 23B in Part IV, the following regulations:

“Post‑retirement medical benefits for members receiving injury allowance

23C. An award officer may grant post‑retirement medical benefits to a member, based on the medical scheme that is applicable to the member on the eve of the member’s date of retirement, if that member is granted an allowance mentioned in regulation 27(1)(ii) or 28(2) or (3).

Dependants’ medical benefits for dependants of members

23D. An award officer may grant dependants’ medical benefits to a member’s dependant, based on the medical scheme that is applicable to the member on the date of the member’s death, if that dependant is granted an allowance or award mentioned in regulation 25(1) or 26(1).”.

Amendment of regulation 28

7. Regulation 28 of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)

by inserting the word “and” at the end of paragraph (9)(b)(i);

(b)

by deleting sub‑paragraph (ii) of paragraph (9)(b); and

(c)

by deleting sub‑paragraph (a) of paragraph (10) and substituting the following sub‑paragraph:

“(a)	is a junior police officer; and”.

[G.N. Nos. S 413/2004; S 32/2007; S 269/2008; S 676/2012; S 153/2013; S 375/2013; S 627/2013; S 24/2014; S 906/2018; S 76/2020; S 785/2020]

Made on 9 March 2021.

PANG KIN KEONG

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Home Affairs,
Singapore.

[MHA 181/12/007; AG/LEGIS/SL/126B/2015/2 Vol. 1]

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