Singapore legislation
Section 23
Section 23
Transfer of employees
(1)
As from 15 March 2000, such persons or categories of persons as the Minister may determine who, immediately before that date, were —
employed by the Ministry of Defence or the Singapore Armed Forces in the incorporated Departments;
in any other department in the Ministry of Defence or the Singapore Armed Forces; or
in the DSO National Laboratories incorporated under the Companies Act 1967,are transferred to the service of the Agency on terms no less favourable than those enjoyed by them immediately prior to their transfer.
(2)
If any question arises as to whether any person or any category of persons has been transferred to the service of the Agency under subsection (1), a certificate under the hand of the Minister shall be conclusive evidence that the person or category of persons was or was not so transferred.
(3)
Until such time as terms and conditions of service are drawn up by the Agency, the scheme and terms and conditions of service in the Government or the Singapore Armed Forces (as the case may be) continue to apply to every person transferred to the service of the Agency under subsection (1) as if the person were still in the service of the Government or the Singapore Armed Forces.
(4)
In the case of every person transferred to the service of the Agency under subsection (1) who, immediately before 15 March 2000, was in the regular service of the Singapore Armed Forces by virtue of the Enlistment Act 1970, such person is, upon the transfer, deemed to be released from regular service in accordance with section 27 of that Act.