Section 16

Until other provision is made, the Harbour Boards Superannuation Schemes Regulations 1938 [G.N. 3328/38] and the Singapore Harbour Board Regulations governing the scale of gratuities payable to employees in receipt of daily or hourly rates of pay, shall continue to apply to the Authority and to every person mentioned in section 15(a) in the like manner as those regulations applied to the Singapore Harbour Board and to persons in the employment of the Singapore Harbour Board immediately prior to the commencement of this Part, and every reference to the Singapore Harbour Board or to its employees or to service or employment with the Singapore Harbour Board in those regulations shall be construed respectively as a reference to the Authority or to persons mentioned in section 15(a) or to service or employment with the Authority in respect of such persons.

Subject to the provisions of the said regulations, every such person may count his previous service with the Singapore Harbour Board for the purpose of determining the benefits to which he becomes entitled under subsection (1).[17