Communicable Diseases Agency Act 2025 · Updated to 1 Apr 2025 · Part 8 · Transfer of Undertakings and Personnel to Agency
51. Transfer of employees and secondees to Agency
Official textFrom Singapore Statutes Online, unchanged
On the transfer date, every transferring HPB employee and every transferring MOH employee —
stops being an employee of the Health Promotion Board or the Government, as the case may be; and
is each transferred to the service, and becomes an employee, of the Agency on terms no less favourable than those enjoyed by the employee on the eve of the transfer date.
A certificate signed by the Minister certifying whether an individual named in the certificate has been transferred to the service of the Agency under subsection (1) is admissible in evidence in any proceedings as proof of the matters stated in the certificate.
Agency
“Agency” means the Communicable Diseases Agency established by section 3;
The transfer under subsection (1) of a transferring HPB employee or a transferring MOH employee (as the case may be) to the service of the Agency —
transferring HPB employee
“transferring HPB employee” means an employee of the Health Promotion Board who, on the eve of the transfer date, is in any of the departments of the Health Promotion Board as specified in Part 1 of the Schedule;
does not interrupt continuity of that employee’s service;
does not constitute a retrenchment or redundancy of that employee’s employment by the Health Promotion Board or the Government, as the case may be; and
does not entitle that employee to any compensation or other payment or benefit merely because he or she stops being employed by the Health Promotion Board or the Government, as the case may be.
Nothing in this section prevents —
any of the terms and conditions of employment of an individual transferred to the service of the Agency under subsection (1) from being altered by or under any law, award or agreement with effect from any time after the transfer date; and
an individual transferred to the service of the Agency under subsection (1) from resigning from that service any time after the transfer date, in accordance with the terms and conditions of his or her employment then applicable.
To avoid doubt, section 18A of the Employment Act 1968 does not apply to the transfer under this Part of any transferring HPB employee or transferring MOH employee to the service of the Agency.
transferring MOH employee
“transferring MOH employee” means an employee of the Government who, on the eve of the transfer date, is in any of the departments of the Ministry of Health as specified in Part 2 of the Schedule;
On the transfer date, every public officer seconded to any of the departments of the transferor as specified in the Schedule under either of the following that is in force on the eve of the transfer date, continues on secondment to the Agency:
officer
“officer”, in relation to the Agency, means an employee of the Agency and includes an individual under a secondment arrangement which makes available the service of the individual to the Agency;
an arrangement made by the Government;
an agreement or arrangement between the Government and the Health Promotion Board.
On the transfer date, every employee of a public body seconded to any of the departments of the transferor as specified in the Schedule under an agreement or arrangement between the transferor and that public body that is in force on the eve of the transfer date, continues on secondment to the Agency.
public body
“public body” means a body corporate established by a public Act for the purposes of a public function but excludes a Town Council established under section 4 of the Town Councils Act 1988;
Terms defined in this Act
Agency
Defined · s 2“Agency” means the Communicable Diseases Agency established by section 3;
Health Promotion Board
Defined · s 49“Health Promotion Board” or “HPB” means the Health Promotion Board established by section 3 of the Health Promotion Board Act 2001;
officer
Defined · s 2“officer”, in relation to the Agency, means an employee of the Agency and includes an individual under a secondment arrangement which makes available the service of the individual to the Agency;
public body
Defined · s 2“public body” means a body corporate established by a public Act for the purposes of a public function but excludes a Town Council established under section 4 of the Town Councils Act 1988;
transferor
Defined · s 49“transferor” means one of the following, as the case may be:(a)the Government;(b)the Health Promotion Board;
transferring HPB employee
Defined · s 49“transferring HPB employee” means an employee of the Health Promotion Board who, on the eve of the transfer date, is in any of the departments of the Health Promotion Board as specified in Part 1 of the Schedule;
transferring MOH employee
Defined · s 49“transferring MOH employee” means an employee of the Government who, on the eve of the transfer date, is in any of the departments of the Ministry of Health as specified in Part 2 of the Schedule;
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