Children Development Co-Savings (Third Child Paid Maternity Leave) (Amendment) Regulations 2004

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 21 Jun 2004

No. S 348

Children Development Co-Savings Act

(Chapter 38A)

Children Development Co-Savings (Third Child Paid Maternity Leave) (Amendment) Regulations 2004

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 20 of the Children Development Co-Savings Act, the Minister for Community Development and Sports hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Children Development Co-Savings (Third Child Paid Maternity Leave) (Amendment) Regulations 2004 and shall be deemed to have come into operation on 1st April 2001.

Amendment of regulation 5

2. Regulation 5 of the Children Development Co-Savings (Third Child Paid Maternity Leave) Regulations (Rg 1) is amended —

(a)

by deleting the words “The amount” in paragraph (3) and substituting the words “Subject to paragraph (4), the amount”; and

(b)

by inserting, immediately after paragraph (3), the following paragraphs:

“(4) Where an employer has paid any contribution to an approved employees scheme for the benefit period of a female employee, the amount of reimbursement that the employer is entitled to claim from the Government shall be calculated in accordance with the following formula:

(MGP + ECPF + CPFAES) x 12

No. of days of maternity leave,

365 days

where MGP is the monthly gross rate of pay of the female employee in respect of whom the claim is made, excluding the CPFAES;

ECPF is the contribution which an employer is liable to make to the Central Provident Fund under the Central Provident Fund Act in respect of that female employee and which is not recoverable from the monthly wages of that female employee; and

CPFAES is the contribution paid by the employer to the approved employees’ scheme in respect of that female employee.

(5) An employer who has paid contribution to an approved employees’ scheme in respect of a female employee before 1st June 2004 may claim reimbursement of the amount of the contribution under paragraph (4) notwithstanding that more than one month has elapsed since the expiry of the benefit period of that female employee.

(6) In this regulation, “approved employees’ scheme” means a welfare scheme certified by the Central Provident Fund Board as such under section 70(1) of the Central Provident Fund Act in force immediately before 1st January 2004.”.

Made this 11th day of June 2004.

LIM SOO HOON

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Community
Development and Sports,
Singapore.

[MCDS 132-28-03; AG/LEG/SL/38/2002/1 Vol. 3]

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