Children Development Co-Savings (Third Child Paid Maternity Leave) (Amendment) Regulations 2002

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No. S 443

Children Development Co-Savings Act

(Chapter 38A)

Children Development Co-Savings
(Third Child Paid Maternity Leave) (Amendment) Regulations 2002

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 20 of the Children Development Co-Savings Act, the Minister of State, Ministry of Community Development and Sports, charged with the responsibility of 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 2002 and shall come into operation on 3rd September 2002.

Amendment of regulation 2

2. Regulation 2 of the Children Development Co-Savings (Third Child Paid Maternity Leave) Regulations 2001 (G.N. No. S 170/2001) (referred to in these Regulations as the principal Regulations) is amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately after the definition of “Director”, the following definition:

“ “leave period” means the period referred to in section 9(2) (a) of the Act;”; and

(b)

by deleting the full-stop at the end of the definition of “net income” and substituting a semi-colon, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following definition:

“ “relevant period” means the period of 6 months immediately preceding the commencement of a self-employed woman’s leave period.”.

Amendment of regulation 4

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

“(4) The gross rate of pay that is payable to a female employee for her benefit period under section 9(1) of the Act shall include allowances only if such allowances have been paid to her for a period of 4 or more months immediately preceding the commencement of her benefit period.”.

Amendment of regulation 6

4. Regulation 6 of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)

by deleting the words “the period of 6 months immediately preceding the commencement of the period referred to in section 9(2) of the Act” in the 3rd, 4th and 5th lines of paragraph (3)(b) and substituting the words “the relevent period”; and

(b)

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

“(4) Where a self-employed woman does not or is unable to substantiate the amount claimed by her as her average net income for the relevant period, the Board may, notwithstanding paragraph (3)(b), compute the amount of income she is entitled to claim from the Government under section 9(2) of the Act on such other basis as the Board determines to be representative of the income lost by her during her leave period.”.

Made this 30th day of August 2002.

LIM SOO HOON

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

[MCDS 132-28-03; AG/LEG/SL/38A/2001/1 Vol. 3]