Clause 29

The Board may reprimand, reduce in rank, retire, dismiss or punish in some other manner a person transferred to the service of the Board under section 25 for any misconduct or neglect of duty committed prior to the appointed day which would have rendered him liable to be reprimanded, reduced in rank, retired, dismissed or punished in some other manner if he had continued to be in the employment of the National Productivity Board or the Singapore Institute of Standards and Industrial Research, as the case may be, and if this Act had not been enacted.