Singapore legislation
Clause 37
Clause 37
Repeal and re-enactment of section 72
Section 72 of the principal Act is repealed and the following section substituted therefor:“Refund of contributions to Government72.—
Notwithstanding sections 20(1)(b) and (1A) and 25 but subject to this section, the Board may, when a public officer is confirmed in a pensionable office in the service of the Government, refund to the Government such contributions paid by the Government in respect of the period before his confirmation (referred to in this section as the excess contributions) as have not been recovered from the public officer’s wages and are credited to any account in the Fund of the public officer, together with the whole or such part, as the Board may determine, of the interest paid on the excess contributions, except that no refund shall exceed the amount standing to the credit of the public officer in that account at the time a claim for the refund is approved by the Board.(2) Notwithstanding sections 20(1)(b) and (1A) and 25, if the excess contributions are credited to any account in the Fund of the public officer, the public officer has died and, at the time a claim for a refund of the whole or any part of the excess contributions and interest thereon is approved by the Board, the Board has made any payment or transfer under section 20(1)(b) or (1A), or any payment to the Public Trustee under section 25(2), from the amount standing to the credit of the public officer in that account —
the Board may refund to the Government the whole or such part, as the Board may determine, of the amount claimed, having regard to —
the amount standing to the credit of the public officer in that account at the time the claim is approved by the Board; and
the portion of the amount payable on the public officer’s death out of the Fund that remains in that account at the time the claim is approved by the Board; and
every payment or transfer made by the Board under section 20(1)(b) or (1A) or 25(2) before the time the claim is approved by the Board shall be deemed to have been properly made under the provisions of this Act.(3) Where any person makes, for and on behalf of the Government, a claim for a refund under this section, the Board may require the person to furnish such information to the Board as may be necessary.”.