Singapore legislation
Clause 4
Clause 4
No parliamentary pension, etc., granted unless service ceases
(1)
No pension or gratuity shall be granted on or after 21st May 2011 under the Parliamentary Pensions Act (Cap. 219) to any person in respect of any service in Parliament as a Member of Parliament unless the person —
has not less than the minimum number of years of reckonable service specified in section 3 of that Act to be eligible for a pension under that section; and
has ceased at any time thereafter to be a Member of Parliament.
(2)
No pension or gratuity shall be granted on or after 21st May 2011 under the Parliamentary Pensions Act to any person in respect of any service in any office unless the person —
has not less than the minimum number of years of reckonable service specified in section 4 of that Act to be eligible for a pension under that section; and
has ceased at any time thereafter to be the holder of any office.
(3)
Where any pension is granted before 21st May 2011 to any office-holding Member under section 4 of the Parliamentary Pensions Act by virtue of section 5 of that Act, payment of that pension as a full or reduced pension shall stop on or after 21st May 2011 and cease to be payable to that office-holding Member for the period that he remains an office-holding Member and any such pension paid in contravention of this subsection shall be immediately refunded to the Pension Fund; except that at the end of that period when he so ceases to hold office —
all that full or reduced pension which would have been payable, if not for this subsection, between 21st May 2011 and the date he so ceases to hold office (both dates inclusive) shall then be payable in a lump sum (without interest); and
his pension under section 4 of the Parliamentary Pensions Act shall be re-computed by adding the period of reckonable service between the date the pension was granted and 20th May 2011 (both dates inclusive) to the period of his former reckonable service which had been used in computing his pension.
(4)
For the avoidance of doubt, this section shall have effect subject to sections 13 and 15 of the Parliamentary Pensions Act.