Singapore legislation

Clause 5

Service in office, if less than eight years, to be counted as additional service for Member’s pension

(1)

This section shall apply to a Member who has served as an office-holding Member for any period which is less than the minimum period of reckonable service specified in section 4 to be eligible for a pension under that section.

(2)

The period of service of a Member to whom this section applies shall, for the purposes of determining his eligibility and of computing the amount of the pension payable to him under subsections (1) and (2) of section 3, be deemed to be increased by such period as may be determined in accordance with the following provisions: —

(a)

for every year of reckonable service as Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister, Speaker, Senior Minister or Minister there shall be added to his period of service one and one-half years of reckonable service as a Member;

(b)

for every year of reckonable service as Senior Minister of State or Minister of State there shall be added to his period of service one year of reckonable service as a Member;

(c)

for every year of reckonable service as a Senior Parliamentary Secretary, Parliamentary Secretary or Political Secretary there shall be added to his period of service two-thirds of a year of reckonable service as a Member;

(d)

for any fraction of a year of reckonable service in any office there shall be added to his period of service a proportionate part of the appropriate period of reckonable service as a Member.

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