Singapore legislation

Section 10

of Singapore Broadcasting Corporation Act

Section 10

List of posts and appointment of employees, etc.

(1)

The Corporation shall, from time to time, approve a list of posts which it thinks necessary for the purposes of this Act and may, from time to time, vary that list in any manner it thinks fit.

(2)

The first such list of posts shall contain posts for all the persons transferred to the service of the Corporation under section 28.

(3)

No person shall be employed by the Corporation unless he holds a post appearing in the list of posts for the time being in force; but the Corporation shall not be precluded from appointing persons temporarily, for such period or periods as it thinks fit, to posts in the list of posts for the time being in force.

(4)

Subject to the provisions of this Act —

(a)

appointments and promotions to all posts shall be made by the Corporation; and

(b)

the termination of service, dismissal and disciplinary control of the employees of the Corporation shall be vested in the Corporation.

(5)

The Corporation may make rules, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act or of any other written law, for the appointment, promotion, disciplinary control and terms and conditions of service of all persons employed by the Corporation and such other matters affecting its employees as it thinks fit.

(6)

Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (5), the Corporation may, from time to time, and in conformity with subsection (1), appoint such number of employees as it thinks fit.

(7)

The Corporation shall prescribe the rates of remuneration payable to the various classes of persons employed by it, and no person so employed shall be paid otherwise than in accordance with such rates.

(8)

Until such time as schemes and terms and conditions of service are drawn up by the Corporation, the regulations relating to salaries and terms and conditions of service in the Government shall continue to apply to every person transferred to the service of the Corporation under section 28.