Central Provident Fund (Long Service Awards) (Amendment) Notification 2003

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 22 Dec 2003

No. S 608

Central Provident Fund Act

(Chapter 36)

Central Provident Fund (Long Service Awards) (Amendment) Notification 2003

In exercise of the powers conferred by the definition of “wages” in section 2 of the Central Provident Fund Act, Dr Ng Eng Hen, Minister of State, Ministry of Education, charged with the responsibility of 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) (Amendment) Notification 2003 and shall come into operation on 22nd December 2003.

Amendment of paragraph 2

2. Paragraph 2(1) of the Central Provident Fund (Long Service Awards) Notification (N 11) is amended by deleting the definition of “long service award” and substituting the following definition:

“ “long service award” means any award in money granted to an employee by his employer in recognition 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, but does not include any award granted under regulation 9(1) of the Education Service Incentive Payment (CONNECT Plan) Regulations (Cap. 87B, Rg 1, 2003 Ed);”.

Deletion and substitution of paragraph 3

3. Paragraph 3 of the Central Provident Fund (Long Service Awards) Notification is deleted and the following paragraph substituted therefor:

“3.—(1) Subject to this paragraph, 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.

(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), the total period of service of an employee with an employer shall be broken up into 5-year periods of service.

(3) Sub-paragraph (1) shall apply to only one long service award granted to an employee in respect of each 5-year period of service with his employer.

(4) Where a long service award has been granted to an employee in respect of any 5-year period of service, sub-paragraph (1) shall not apply to any subsequent long service award granted to him in respect of the same 5-year period of service.

(5) In this paragraph, “5-year period of service”, in relation to an employee, means every continuous period of 5 years of service with his employer commencing from the date the employee is employed by his employer or is recognised as being employed by his employer in accordance with paragraph 2(3).”.

Made this 19th day of December 2003.

LIM SOO HOON

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Manpower,
Singapore.

[MM C 39/62 T1/03, AG/LEG/SL/36/2002/5 Vol. 1]

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