No. S 673
Education Service Incentive Payment Act
(Chapter 87B)
Education Service Incentive Payment (Connect Plan) (Amendment) Regulations 2003
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 3(1) of the Education Service Incentive Payment Act, Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Senior Minister of State, charged with the responsibility of the Minister for Education, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Education Service Incentive Payment (CONNECT Plan) (Amendment) Regulations 2003 and shall come into operation on 1st January 2004.
Amendment of regulation 7
2.  Regulation 7(1) of the Education Service Incentive Payment (CONNECT Plan) Regulations (Rg 1, 2003 Ed.) (referred to in these Regulations as the principal Regulations) is amended —
(a)by deleting the word “or” at the end of sub-paragraph (g); and
(b)by deleting the full-stop at the end of sub-paragraph (h) and substituting the word “; or”, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following sub-paragraph:
(i)the member, being an aided school teacher, ceases to be an aided school teacher on account of the aided school by which he is employed becoming an independent school.”.
Amendment of regulation 10
3.  Regulation 10 (1) of the principal Regulations is amended —
(a)by deleting the word “or” at the end of sub-paragraph (e); and
(b)by deleting the full-stop at the end of sub-paragraph (f) and substituting a semi-colon, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following sub-paragraphs:
(g)the member, being an aided school teacher, ceases to be an aided school teacher on account of the aided school by which he is employed becoming an independent school;
(h)the member resigns from the Education Service or from employment as an aided school teacher, as the case may be, for the purpose of being employed as a teacher in an independent school; or
(i)the member resigns from the Education Service or from employment as an aided school teacher, as the case may be, for the purpose of taking up employment with the Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board or the National Institute of Education.”.
Amendment of regulation 11
4.  Regulation 11 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting paragraph (a) and substituting the following paragraphs:
(a)resigns from the Education Service, other than for the purpose of —
(i)being employed as an aided school teacher without break in service;
(ii)being employed as a teacher in an independent school; or
(iii)taking up employment with the Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board or the National Institute of Education;
(aa)resigns from employment as an aided school teacher, other than for the purpose of —
(i)being appointed to the Education Service without break in service;
(ii)being employed as a teacher in an independent school; or
(iii)taking up employment with the Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board or the National Institute of Education;”.

Made this 30th day of December 2003.

LIM CHUAN POH
Second Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Education,
Singapore.
[EDUN. C 03-42-082-V1; AG/LEG/SL/87B/2002/1 Vol 1]