Singapore legislation
Clause 10
Clause 10
Safeguarding of Provident Fund benefits
(1)
Until Rules are made under section 12 of this Ordinance, 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 section 9 of this Ordinance who, immediately prior to the coming into operation of this Ordinance, was a member of the Municipal Provident Fund, or would have been eligible for membership of the said Fund if he had attained the age of twenty years and had passed a medical examination of the standard prescribed, in the like manner as the said Rules applied to such persons immediately prior to the coming into operation of this Ordinance, and every reference to service or employment with the City Council in the said Rules shall be construed as a reference to service or employment with the Government in respect of such persons. [G.N. No. S 179/56.]
(2)
Until Rules are made under section 12 of this Ordinance, 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 be construed as provisions requiring the Government to make payments into the said Fund in respect of every person referred to in subsection (1) of this section who is or who becomes a member of the said Fund.
(3)
Persons who have been transferred to the service of the Government under section 9 of this Ordinance may count their previous service in the City Council, and their previous membership of the Municipal Provident Fund and their contributions to the said Fund, for the purpose of determining the benefits to which they become entitled under this section.