Education Service Incentive Payment (CONNECT Plan) Regulations

Education Service Incentive Payment Act

(Chapter 87B, Section 3(1))

Rg 1

G.N. No. S 128/2002

REVISED EDITION 2003

(31st January 2003)

[1st January 2002]

PART I

PRELIMINARY

Citation

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Education Service Incentive Payment (CONNECT Plan) Regulations.

Definitions

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

“aided school teacher” means a person who is employed by the manager of an aided school for teaching duties;

“Award Administrator” means any public officer appointed under regulation 3 to be an Award Administrator;

[Deleted by S 779/2015 wef 01/10/2015]

“Category A member of the old scheme” means a member who, on or before 1 October 2015, did not opt to become a Category C member, and who is —

(a)

a public officer appointed to the Education Service who has attained the grade of —

(i)	General Education Officer 1 (Trained);
(ii)	General Education Officer 1A1;
(iii)	General Education Officer 1A2;
(iv)	General Education Officer 1A3; or
(v)	Senior Education Officer 1; or

(b)

an aided school teacher on remuneration terms equivalent to those of a public officer referred to in paragraph (a);

[S 779/2015 wef 01/10/2015]

[Deleted by S 779/2015 wef 01/10/2015]

“Category B member of the old scheme” means a member who, on or before 1 October 2015, did not opt to become a Category C member, and who is —

(a)

a public officer appointed to the Education Service who has attained the grade of —

(i)	General Education Officer 2 (Trained);
(ii)	General Education Officer 2A2;
(iii)	General Education Officer 2A3; or
(iv)	General Education Officer II; or

(b)

an aided school teacher on remuneration terms equivalent to those of a public officer referred to in paragraph (a);

[S 779/2015 wef 01/10/2015]

“Category C member” means any member who is neither a Category A member of the old scheme nor a Category B member of the old scheme;

[S 779/2015 wef 01/10/2015]

“contribution”, in relation to any member, means a sum payable by the Government in respect of the member in accordance with regulations 8 or 16;

[S 442/2008 wef 01/01/2008]

“Education Service” means the Education Scheme of Service of the Singapore Civil Service;

“Forfeiture Account” has the same meaning as in the Education Service Incentive Payment (CONNECT Fund) Rules (R 1);

“leave” means leave of absence;

“length of service”, in relation to a member, means the period beginning on the date the member —

(a)	is appointed (whether before, on or after 1st January 2002) to the Education Service to any grade below Superscale grade (but not the grade of General Education Officer 1 (Untrained), General Education Officer 2 (Untrained) or their equivalent); or [S 779/2015 wef 01/10/2015]
(b)	is employed as an aided school teacher (whether before, on or after 1st January 2002) on remuneration terms equivalent to those of a public officer appointed to the Education Service to any grade below Superscale grade (but not the grade of General Education Officer 1 (Untrained), General Education Officer 2 (Untrained) or their equivalent), [S 442/2008 wef 01/01/2008] [S 779/2015 wef 01/10/2015]

and ending on 1st January of every year thereafter;

“member” means any member of the CONNECT Plan, being either —

(a)	a public officer appointed (whether before, on or after 1st January 2002) to the Education Service to any grade below Superscale grade (but not the grade of General Education Officer 1 (Untrained), General Education Officer 2 (Untrained) or their equivalent); or [S 442/2008 wef 01/01/2008] [S 779/2015 wef 01/10/2015]
(b)	an aided school teacher (whether employed before, on or after 1st January 2002) on remuneration terms equivalent to those of a public officer referred to in paragraph (a); [S 442/2008 wef 01/01/2008]

“member’s account”, in relation to a member, means the subsidiary account within the CONNECT Fund which is maintained in respect of the member in accordance with the Education Service Incentive Payment (CONNECT Fund) Rules (R 1);

“non-qualifying leave without pay” means any leave without pay that is not qualifying leave without pay;

[S 860/2020 wef 17/08/2008]

“qualifying leave without pay” means any leave without pay that is regarded, under the provisions of the Instruction Manual relating to the types of leave of a member for the time being in force, as counting towards a member’s length of service for the purpose of determining service benefits;

[S 860/2020 wef 17/08/2008]

“qualifying service” has the meanings assigned in regulations 4 and 5;

“serving member”, as at any specified date, means any member who, immediately before that date, is —

(a)	a public officer appointed to the Education Service to any grade below Superscale grade (but not the grade of General Education Officer 1 (Untrained), General Education Officer 2 (Untrained) or their equivalent); or [S 779/2015 wef 01/10/2015]
(b)	an aided school teacher on remuneration terms equivalent to those of a public officer referred to in paragraph (a); [S 442/2008 wef 01/01/2008] [S 539/2018 wef 04/09/2018]

“written warning” means a warning issued under direction 5(2) of the Public Service Commission (Delegation of Disciplinary Functions) Directions (Const., Dir 1).

[S 539/2018 wef 04/09/2018]

(2) For the purposes of these Regulations, a person shall not be regarded as being appointed to the Education Service or employed for teaching duties if the person is appointed or employed under a contract of service for a term.

(3) In calculating the number of years of a member’s length of service, any fraction of a year shall be rounded up to the next whole number.

Award Administrators

3. The Minister may —

(a)	appoint one or more public officers as Award Administrators to assess and pay awards to be granted or granted under these Regulations; and
(b)	give such directions as he thinks fit to the Award Administrators in the discharge of their duties.

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