Central Provident Fund Act
(Chapter 36, Paragraph (d) of the definition of “employer” in Section 2)
Central Provident Fund
(Government Employees) Notification
N 2
G.N. No. S 121/1977

REVISED EDITION 1998
(1st January 1998)
[1st December 1976]
Citation
1.  This Notification may be cited as the Central Provident Fund (Government Employees) Notification.
Definitions
2.  In this Notification —
“full-time service” has the same meaning as in the Enlistment Act (Cap. 93);
“graduate” means any person who holds or is conferred or awarded a degree or professional diploma or its equivalent recognised by the proper authority;
“national serviceman” has the same meaning as in the Enlistment Act;
“officer” means a person appointed by the President or the proper authority to hold the rank of officer in the Singapore Armed Forces, a Temporary Probationary Inspector, Probationary Inspector or Temporary Inspector in the Police Force;
“officer cadet” means any person who is receiving training for the purposes of appointment as an officer;
“proper authority” has the same meaning as in the Enlistment Act (Cap. 93).
Non-graduate full-time national servicemen
3.  The following categories of full-time national servicemen who are not graduates and have been appointed as officers or officer cadets are hereby declared to be employees for the purposes of the Act:
(a)persons who were enlisted on or after 1st December 1976;
(b)persons who were enlisted before 1st December 1976 and, whose service having been interrupted by a break at any time before that date, have resumed service at any time on or after 1st December 1976; and
(c)persons who were enlisted before 1st December 1976 and, whose service having been interrupted by a break commencing on or after 1st December 1976, have resumed such service after the break.
Government employees
4.  The following persons are hereby declared to be employees for the purposes of the Act:
(a)every officer or employee of the Government not engaged on overseas contract terms and not in receipt of an expatriation allowance; and
(b)every employee of the Government engaged on overseas contract terms or in receipt of an expatriation allowance to the extent expressly provided for in regulations made under the Act.
[G.N. Nos.S 121/77; S 229/80; S 531/93]