Singapore legislation
Section 3
Section 3
Application of this Act
(1)
Subject to subsections (2) and (4), the provisions of this Act shall apply —
to all officers appointed to the public service in Singapore; and
to all officers who have been transferred from Singapore to any other public service before 1 July 1956.
(2)
Nothing in this Act diminishes the amount of pension, gratuity (other than a gratuity under section 20) or other allowance for which an officer in the public service in Singapore on 1 July 1956 would have been eligible had this Act not been enacted or adversely affect the conditions which would have been applicable to such pension, gratuity or other allowance.
(3)
In the application of this Act to officers who were officers on the Malayan Establishment within the meaning of section 2 of the Malayan Establishment Pensions Ordinance 1948 (M 12/48) immediately before 1 July 1954, the following provisions have effect:
where any such officer was in the public service in Singapore immediately before 1 July 1954, all rights accrued to such officer in respect of pensions, gratuities or other allowances under the Malayan Establishment Pensions Ordinance 1948 or the Minutes made thereunder continue to subsist under this Act as if service in respect of which those rights accrued had been public service in Singapore; and
nothing in this Act —
diminishes the amount of pension, gratuity or other allowance for which any such officer as is referred to in paragraph (a) would have been eligible under the Malayan Establishment Pensions Ordinance 1948 or the Minutes made thereunder had the Ordinance not been repealed and had the officer continued to serve on the Malayan Establishment; or
adversely affects conditions that would have been applicable to such pension, gratuity or other allowances under that Ordinance or Minutes.
(4)
Unless otherwise expressly provided, the provisions of this Act shall not apply —
to all officers appointed on or after 1 April 1986 to the public service in Singapore, except officers who are appointed to such schemes of service as may be designated by the President; and
to all officers appointed on or after 1 December 1972 to any office in the public service in Singapore being an office designated as falling within Division 3 or 4, except officers who are so appointed to the Police (Junior) and the Narcotics schemes of service.