Central Provident Fund (Amendment) Bill

This Act may be cited as the Central Provident Fund (Amendment) Act, 1968, and shall come into operation on such date as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint.

Section 2 of the Central Provident Fund Ordinance (hereinafter in this Act referred to as “the Ordinance”) is hereby amended by inserting immediately before the word “proves” appearing in paragraph (b) of the definition of “date of withdrawal” therein the expression “not being a citizen of Singapore,”.

Subsection (6) of section 7 of the Ordinance is hereby amended by deleting the colon appearing at the end of paragraph (b) thereof and substituting therefor a full-stop and by deleting the proviso thereto.

Section 8 of the Ordinance is hereby amended by deleting the words “the Fund” appearing in the second and in the ninth lines thereof and substituting therefor in each case the words “this Ordinance”.

The Ordinance is hereby amended by inserting immediately after section 15 thereof the following new section: —“Information not to be published or communicated15A. Any person employed by the Board who without lawful authority publishes or communicates to any person otherwise than in the ordinary course of his duty or employment any information acquired by him in the course of his duty or employment shall be guilty of an offence under this Ordinance and shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to a fine not exceeding four thousand dollars, or to both such imprisonment and fine.”.

The Ordinance is hereby amended by inserting immediately after section 24 thereof the following new section: —“Power of Board to engage in activities not directly related to administration of Fund24A. The Board may, if the Minister is satisfied that it is in the public interest so to do, engage in activities not directly related to the administration of the Fund including in particular the compilation of information of a statistical nature or otherwise relating to employers and employees and for this purpose the Board may require employers and employees to furnish such particulars as may be necessary.”.

Subsection (1) of section 25 of the Ordinance is hereby amended by deleting paragraph (c) thereof and substituting therefor the following: —“(c)to provide for the classification of any employment, not being employment under a contract of service or apprenticeship, as an employment in respect of which contributions are payable under the provisions of this Ordinance;”.