Singapore legislation
Clause 2
Clause 2
Amendment of section 2
Section 2 of the Parliamentary Pensions Act (referred to in this Act as the principal Act) is amended —
by inserting, immediately before the definition of “Member”, the following definitions:“ “elected Member”, “non-constituency Member” and “nominated Member” shall have the same meanings as in Article 39(1)(a), (b) and (c), respectively, of the Constitution;“future Member” means a person —
who becomes, by election or appointment, a Member at any time after 1st January 1995 without previously having been, before or after that date, a Member or an office-holding Member;
who, having been a Member before 1st January 1995 but not being a Member on that date, becomes, by election or appointment, a Member at any time after 1st January 1995; or
who, being an elected Member on 1st January 1995, becomes —
a non-constituency Member or nominated Member at any time after 1st January 1995 with or without a break in his service as a Member; or
an elected Member at any time after 1st January 1995 with a break in his service as a Member after that date,and for the purposes of paragraph (c) of this definition, a Member’s service shall be deemed not broken but continuous if, following the dissolution of Parliament or his seat therein becoming vacant under the provisions of the Constitution, he is elected as a Member at the ensuing general election or the ensuing by-election to fill that vacancy;”; and
by inserting, immediately after the definition of “office-holding Member”, the following definition:“ “prescribed commutation factor” and “prescribed discount rate” mean, respectively, such factor and rate as the President shall prescribe for the purposes of this Act;”.