Singapore Armed Forces (SAVER Plan) (Amendment) Regulations 2010

No. S 188

Singapore Armed Forces Act

(Chapter 295)

Singapore Armed Forces (Saver Plan) (Amendment) Regulations 2010

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 205A of the Singapore Armed Forces Act, the Armed Forces Council hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Singapore Armed Forces (SAVER Plan) (Amendment) Regulations 2010 and shall, with the exception of regulation 4, come into operation on 1st April 2010.

(2) Regulation 4 shall be deemed to have come into operation on 1st March 2010.

Amendment of regulation 2

2. Regulation 2(1) of the Singapore Armed Forces (SAVER Plan) Regulations (Rg 19) (referred to in these Regulations as the principal Regulations) is amended —

(a)

by deleting the definition of “compensation salary” and substituting the following definition:

“ “compensation salary”, in relation to a member, means the consolidated salary of the member, whether he is confirmed in any rank that he holds or otherwise, and includes —

(a)	for the purposes of Parts V and VI, such reimbursement or pay to which the member is entitled or which is payable to him by his employer under section 24 of the Enlistment Act (Cap. 93); and
(b)	any other allowance declared by the Armed Forces Council to be a component of the compensation salary, not being an allowance for the performance by a member of duties in a rank higher than his substantive or temporary rank;”;

(b)

by deleting the definition of “gross salary” and substituting the following definition:

“ “gross salary”, in relation to a member, means the consolidated salary of the member, whether he is confirmed in any rank that he holds or otherwise, and includes —

(a)	bonuses, including performance bonuses; and
(b)	such other allowances as the Armed Forces Council may determine, not being an allowance for the performance by a member of duties in a rank higher than his substantive or temporary rank;”;

(c)

by deleting the definition of “member” and substituting the following definition:

“ “member” means a member of the SAVER Plan, being any of the following persons:

(a)	any person enlisted for regular service as an officer or an officer cadet in the Singapore Armed Forces on or after 1st January 1998;
(b)	any soldier in the regular service who is appointed as an officer in the Singapore Armed Forces on or after 1st January 1998;
(c)	any serviceman to whom Part VII applies, and who opts to join the SAVER Plan under Part VII;”; and

(d)

by inserting, immediately after the definition of “normal retirement age”, the following definition:

“ “officer cadet” includes a midshipman;”.

New regulation 2A

3. The principal Regulations are amended by inserting, immediately after regulation 2, the following regulation:

“Non-application to regular servicemen in military domain experts service

2A. Except as otherwise provided in the Singapore Armed Forces (Military Domain Experts Service) Regulations 2010 (G.N. No. S 186/2010), these Regulations shall cease to apply to any member (including any serviceman to whom Part VII applies) who becomes a regular serviceman in the military domain experts service on or after 1st April 2010.”.

Amendment of regulation 18

4. Regulation 18 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting paragraph (1) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the following persons shall be entitled to apply to withdraw the sums standing to the credit of a member in the SAVER-Premium Fund which are payable under these Regulations in respect of the member, where the member retires from the Singapore Armed Forces on any ground specified in regulation 12 or resigns from the Singapore Armed Forces:

(a)

the member; or

(b)

where the member lacks capacity within the meaning of section 4 of the Mental Capacity Act 2008 (Act 22 of 2008) —

(i)	a deputy appointed or deemed to be appointed for the member by the court under that Act with power in relation to the member for the purposes of these Regulations; or
(ii)	a donee under a lasting power of attorney registered under that Act with power in relation to the member for the purposes of these Regulations.”.

Amendment of regulation 40

5. Regulation 40(1) of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the word “deceased”.

Amendment of regulation 41

6. Regulation 41 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the word “This” and substituting the words “Subject to regulation 2A, this”.

Amendment of Third Schedule

7. The Third Schedule to the principal Regulations is amended by deleting paragraphs (1), (2) and (3) of the Notes to that Schedule and substituting the following paragraphs:

“(1) The total permanent loss of the use of a body part shall be treated as loss of that body part.

(2) Where there is a loss of 2 or more parts of a hand, the percentage shall not be more than the percentage for the loss of the whole hand.

(3) Where an arm, a leg or an eye has already been lost, the compensation for the loss of the remaining arm, leg or eye, as the case may be, shall be the difference between the compensation for total incapacity and the compensation already paid, or which would have been paid, for the previous loss of arm, leg or eye.”.

[G.N. Nos. S 376/2003; S 516/2004; S 107/2005; S 168/2007; S 162/2008]

Made this 25th day of March 2010.

TAN KOK YAM

Secretary,
Armed Forces Council,
Singapore.

[MINDEF4-4/26-3-5/HCL; AG/LLRD/SL/295/2010/5 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 207 of the Singapore Armed Forces Act).

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