Central Provident Fund (Long Service Awards) Notification 2001

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 17 Sep 2001

No. S 447

Central Provident Fund Act

(Chapter 36)

Central Provident Fund (Long Service Awards) Notification 2001

In exercise of the powers conferred by the definition of “wages” in section 2 of the Central Provident Fund Act, the Minister for Manpower hereby makes the following Notification:

Citation and commencement

1. This Notification may be cited as the Central Provident Fund (Long Service Awards) Notification 2001 and shall come into operation on 1st October 2001.

Definitions

2.—(1) In this Notification —

“long service award” means any remuneration in money due or granted to an employee by his employer in respect of every continuous period of not less than 5 years of service with his employer or as may be recognised by his employer in accordance with sub-paragraph (3) to be service with his employer;

“ordinary wages for the month” has the same meaning as in paragraph 5(e) of the First Schedule to the Act.

(2) An employer may regard his employee’s service as being continuous even if there has been an interruption to or break in the employee’s service.

(3) An employee may be recognised as having been employed by his employer —

(a)	where the employer is the Government, during any period he was employed by a statutory body specified in the First Schedule to the Act;
(b)	where the employer is a statutory body specified in the First Schedule to the Act, during any period he was employed by the Government or by another such statutory body;
(c)	where the employer is a corporation, during any period he was employed by a related corporation within the meaning of section 6 of the Companies Act (Cap.50); or
(d)	in the case of any employer, during any period of his national service under the Enlistment Act (Cap.93).

Long service awards

3. The definition of “wages” in section 2 of the Act does not include any amount paid to any employee as a long service award up to the amount of the employee’s ordinary wages for the month in which the long service award is paid.

Made this 12th day of September 2001.

TAN CHIN NAM

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Manpower,
Singapore.

[MM C 39/62 V15; AG/LEG/SL/36/1997/6 Vol. 1]

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