Clause 3

Rules for the maintenance of the Municipal Provident Fund made under section 12 of the Local Government Integration Ordinance, 1963 (Ord. of 1963), shall be binding upon the Board and its officers.(2) Until such Rules are made, 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 Board under section 32 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 Board in respect of such persons. [G.N. No. S 179/56](3) Until such Rules are made, 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 Board and be construed as provisions requiring the Board to make payments into the said Fund in respect of every person referred to in subsection (2) of this section who is or who becomes a member of the said Fund.(4) Persons who have been transferred to the service of the Board under section 32 of this Ordinance may count their previous service in the Singapore Improvement Trust 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.”.