Singapore legislation
Section 9
Section 9
Pension granted to person ceasing to be Member or office-holder on medical grounds
(1)
Where after 1st September 1978 a person ceases at any time to be a Member or to hold office by reason of ill-health and the President is satisfied that on account of such ill-health that person has become incapable of performing the duties of a Member or of his office, he may be granted a pension or gratuity in accordance with this section.
(2)
In the case of a person who ceases to be a Member and —
who has the minimum period of reckonable service to be eligible for a pension under section 3, he may be granted a pension in accordance with that section notwithstanding the fact that he has not attained the age of 50 years;
who does not have the minimum period of reckonable service to be eligible for a pension under section 3, he may be granted a gratuity to be computed —
at the rate of 10% of his annual salary as defined in section 3(4) for each completed year of reckonable service as a Member (including any period of reckonable service which may be counted by virtue of section 6); and
at the rate of 10% of one-twelfth (1/12) of such annual salary for any completed month remaining after the last completed year of reckonable service.
(3)
In the case of a person who ceases to hold office and who has the minimum period of reckonable service to be eligible for a pension under section 4, he may be granted a pension in accordance with that section notwithstanding the fact that he has not attained the age of 50 years.
(4)
A person to whom a pension may be granted under this section may, at his option, be paid in lieu of that pension a commuted pension gratuity which shall be ascertained by multiplying the prescribed commutation factor by the amount of such pension that may be granted to him in accordance with this section.