Section 5

On 1st February 1960, every officer of the Singapore Improvement Trust who is not deemed to be transferred to the service of the Housing and Development Board under section 40(1) of the Housing and Development Act [Cap. 129], shall be deemed to be transferred to the service of the Government at the same rate of pay and, as near as may be, on the same conditions of service as those on which he was employed by the Singapore Improvement Trust.

The service under the Singapore Improvement Trust of every person transferred to the service of the Government under subsection (1) shall be deemed to have been service under the Government for the purposes of and subject to the provisions of the Pensions Act [Cap. 225].

Until other provision is made, the Municipal (Provident Fund) Rules 1956, as from time to time amended, shall continue to apply to every person transferred to the service of the Government under subsection (1) who, immediately before the commencement of this Act, was a member of the Municipal Provident Fund, or would have been eligible for membership of the Fund if he had attained the age of 20 years and had passed a medical examination of the standard prescribed, in the like manner as those Rules applied to those persons before the commencement of this Act, and every reference to service or employment with the City Council in those Rules shall be construed as a reference to service or employment with the Government in respect of those persons.

Until other provision is made, the provisions of the Municipal (Provident Fund) Rules 1956, as from time to time amended, requiring the City Council to make payments into the Municipal Provident Fund shall apply to the Government and shall be construed as provisions requiring the Government to make payments into the Fund in respect of every person referred to in subsection (3) who is or who becomes a member of the Fund.

Persons who have been transferred to the service of the Government under subsection (1) may count their previous service in the Singapore Improvement Trust, and their previous membership of the Municipal Provident Fund and their contributions to the Fund, for the purpose of determining the benefits to which they become entitled under this section.