Sultan Hussain (New Scheme for Payment of Annuity or Commuted Gratuity) Regulations 2000

No. S 60

Sultan Hussain Ordinance

(Chapter 382)

Sultan Hussain (New Scheme for Payment of Annuity or Commuted Gratuity) Regulations 2000

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 4A of the Sultan Hussain Ordinance, the Minister for Law hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Sultan Hussain (New Scheme for Payment of Annuity or Commuted Gratuity) Regulations 2000 and shall come into operation on 1st March 2000.

Definitions

2. In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires —

“financial year” means the period beginning on 1st April of each year and ending on 31st March of the succeeding year;

“relevant person” means a member of the family of the late Sultan Hussain who before 4th May 1999 was receiving an annuity under the Ordinance.

Annuity

3.—(1) Subject to these Regulations, every relevant person shall be granted in the financial year 1999 and every subsequent financial year until the end of financial year 2028 an annuity of an amount ascertained in accordance with the formula

where

A is the amount of annuity payable to the relevant person in the financial year 1998 under the Ordinance; and

B is the total amount of annuities payable to the family of the late Sultan Hussain in the financial year 1998 under the Ordinance.

(2) The payment of the annuity under paragraph (1) shall be made to a relevant person on such date as the Minister may determine from time to time.

Option for commuted gratuity

4.—(1) Subject to this regulation, a relevant person to whom an annuity is to be granted under regulation 3 may, at his option exercisable in accordance with this regulation, be paid a commuted gratuity ascertained in accordance with paragraph (4) in lieu of the annuity.

(2) The option under paragraph (1) may be exercisable by a relevant person at any time.

(3) If a relevant person has exercised the option under paragraph (1), his decision shall be irrevocable.

(4) The commuted gratuity referred to in paragraph (1) shall be a lump sum equal to the net present value of the outstanding future stream of annuities payable to the relevant person under regulation 3 and discounted at such rate as the Minister may determine.

Payment of commuted gratuity to estate of deceased person who has not opted under regulation 4

5.—(1) Where a relevant person to whom an annuity is payable under regulation 3 dies without exercising an option under regulation 4(1), there shall be paid to the estate of the deceased person a commuted gratuity computed in accordance with paragraph (2).

(2) The commuted gratuity payable under paragraph (1) to the estate of a deceased relevant person shall be a lump sum equal to the net present value of the outstanding future stream of annuities payable to the deceased person under regulation 3 and discounted at such rate as the Minister may determine.

Made this 21st day of February 2000.

GOH KIM LEONG

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Law,
Singapore.

[LAW 29/001/002; AG/LEG/SL/382/99/1 Vol. 1]

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