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Port of Singapore Authority Act

(Chapter 236, Section 17)

Port of Singapore Authority (Staff Transfer) Rules

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REVISED EDITION 1990

(25th March 1992)

[1st April 1964]

Citation

1. These Rules may be cited as the Port of Singapore Authority (Staff Transfer) Rules.

Transferred officers

2. Every officer employed in the service of the Government immediately before 1st April 1964 shall be deemed to have been transferred to the service of the Authority in accordance with section 15(b) of the Act.

Terms for transferred officers

3.—(1) An officer (referred to in these Rules as a transferred officer) transferred to the service of the Authority in accordance with section 15(b) of the Act shall be employed by the Authority on terms as near as may be to those he had enjoyed immediately prior to 1st April 1964.

(2) Upon his retirement in circumstances qualifying him for a pension, gratuity, retiring allowance or provident fund benefits in accordance with the provisions of any of the Schemes mentioned in the First Schedule, a transferred officer shall be granted any of such benefits for which he is eligible as if his service from 1st April 1964 had been service with the Government.

(3) Where a transferred officer dies during his service with the Authority, there shall be paid by the Authority to such of his dependants as the Authority may think fit, or if there are no dependants to his legal personal representative, a gratuity of an amount which will be no less favourable than that calculated in accordance with section 16 of the Pensions Act [Cap. 225].

Transferred officers affected by other Schemes

4.—(1) Every transferred officer who immediately before his transfer held a post which was a pensionable office under the Pensions Act, shall be deemed for the purpose of that Act to continue to hold such office so long as he is in the employment of the Authority and shall be eligible for the grant of a pension as though his service under the Authority were service under the Government.

(2) Every transferred officer who immediately before his transfer held a post in which he would in the ordinary course by effluxion of time have become pensionable under the Pensions Act, shall be deemed for the purpose of that Act to continue to hold the said post so long as he is in the employment of the Authority and shall be eligible for the grant of a pension as though his service under the Authority was service under the Government.

(3) A transferred officer who immediately before his transfer was contributing to the Central Provident Fund and who was in the service of the Government prior to¹ the date of the coming into operation of the Central Provident Fund Act [Cap. 36] shall retain his eligibility under section 6(d) of the Pensions Act, to make a refund to the Government and the Authority, before the effective date of his retirement, the total amount of contributions paid by the Government and the Authority to the Central Provident Fund on his behalf, together with interest thereon:

¹1st July 1955.

Provided that if such a transferred officer is subsequently appointed by the Authority to a pensionable office in its service, then any benefits for which he is eligible under the Pensions Act, shall be computed as if he had not been appointed to the pensionable office of the Authority on the basic or consolidated salary drawn by him immediately before the effective date of his appointment to the pensionable office and in respect of his service prior to that date. Such benefits shall be payable to him on his eventual retirement on account of age or ill-health and shall be subject to rule 5(1).

(4) A transferred officer who, on 1st April 1964, was contributing to the Municipal Provident Fund, shall continue to contribute to the Fund and be eligible for benefits under the Municipal (Provident Fund) Rules, as though his service under the Authority were service under the Government, subject to the provisions of any written law affecting the payment of benefits under those Rules.

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(5) A transferred officer who immediately before his transfer was eligible for benefits in accordance with the Scheme for the Payment of Retiring Gratuities set out in the Second Schedule shall continue to be eligible for such benefits in accordance with the terms of that Schedule as though his service under the Authority were service under the Government.

Transferred officers who retires under section 7 (2) (a) or (c) of Pensions Act

5.—(1) In every case in which a transferred officer retires in circumstances described in section 7 (2) (a) or (c) of the Pensions Act [Cap. 225], and is eligible for any benefits under the Act, he may be granted a pension, gratuity or other allowance by the Authority of such an amount as shall bear the same proportion to the amount of pension, gratuity or other allowance for which he would have been eligible had his service been wholly in the Government as the aggregate amount of his pensionable emoluments during his service with the Authority shall bear to the aggregate amount of his pensionable emoluments throughout his service with the Government and the Authority.

(2) In the case of a transferred officer to whom rule 4(4) applies, the Authority shall pay to the Government a sum equal to the rate of donation as may, from time to time, be determined upon the valuation of the Fund in accordance with rule 9(1) of the Municipal (Provident Fund) Rules.

Transferred officers who are subject to the Widows and Orphans Pension Act

6.—(1) Every transferred officer under rules 4 and 5 who immediately before his transfer was subject to the provisions of the Widows’ and Orphans’ Pension Act shall so long as he remains in the employment of the Authority be deemed to be a public servant within the meaning of that Act and for the purposes of the application of the provisions thereto.

(2) Upon the death of any transferred officer mentioned in paragraph (1) the Government shall be liable for all payments which fall due to the widows or orphans as the case may be in accordance with that Act.