Clause 23

As from the appointed day, such persons or categories of persons as the Minister may determine who, immediately before that day, were employed by the Ministry of Defence or the Singapore Armed Forces in the incorporated Departments, or in any other department in the Ministry of Defence or the Singapore Armed Forces, or in the DSO National Laboratories incorporated under the Companies Act (Cap. 50), shall be transferred to the service of the Agency on terms no less favourable than those enjoyed by them immediately prior to their transfer.

If any question arises as to whether any person or any category of persons has been transferred to the service of the Agency under subsection (1), a certificate under the hand of the Minister shall be conclusive evidence that the person or category of persons was or was not so transferred.

Until such time as terms and conditions of service are drawn up by the Agency, the scheme and terms and conditions of service in the Government or the Singapore Armed Forces, as the case may be, shall continue to apply to every person transferred to the service of the Agency under subsection (1) as if he were still in the service of the Government or the Singapore Armed Forces.

In the case of every person transferred to the service of the Agency under subsection (1) who, immediately before the appointed day, was in the regular service of the Singapore Armed Forces by virtue of the Enlistment Act (Cap. 93), such person shall, upon the transfer, be deemed to be released from regular service in accordance with section 26 of that Act.