Singapore legislation
Clause 3
Clause 3
Amendment of section 9
Section 9 of the principal Ordinance is hereby amended —
by deleting the expression “, or if a woman forty-five years” appearing in the sixth and seventh lines of paragraph (a) thereof;
by deleting paragraph (d) thereof and substituting therefor the following: —“(d)who, being a woman appointed to the public service before the 1st day of March 1962, is married or marries and has opted to remain eligible for a gratuity on marriage; or”;
by deleting the full-stop appearing at the end of paragraph (f) thereof and substituting therefor the expression “; or”; and
by inserting immediately after paragraph (f) thereof the following new paragraph: —“(g)who has attained, in the case of a female officer appointed to the public service on or after the 1st day of March 1962, the age of sixty years or fifty-five years if the Yang di-Pertuan Negara in any individual case so directs.”.