Subsidiary Legislation · 2024 Revised Edition · 4 parts
Education Service Incentive Payment (CONNECT Plan) Regulations 2002
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Preliminary
Official textFrom Singapore Statutes Online, unchanged
reg 1Citation
These Regulations are the Education Service Incentive Payment (CONNECT Plan) Regulations 2002.
Subregulation 1
In these Regulations —
“aided school teacher” means a person who is employed by the manager of an aided school for teaching duties;
“Award Administrator” means any public officer appointed under regulation 3 to be an Award Administrator;
“Category A member of the old scheme” means a member who, on or before 1 October 2015, did not opt to become a Category C member, and who is —
a public officer appointed to the Education Service who has attained the grade of —
General Education Officer 1 (Trained);
General Education Officer 1A1;
General Education Officer 1A2;
General Education Officer 1A3; or
Senior Education Officer 1; or
an aided school teacher on remuneration terms equivalent to those of a public officer mentioned in paragraph (a);
“Category B member of the old scheme” means a member who, on or before 1 October 2015, did not opt to become a Category C member, and who is —
a public officer appointed to the Education Service who has attained the grade of —
General Education Officer 2 (Trained);
General Education Officer 2A2;
General Education Officer 2A3; or
General Education Officer II; or
an aided school teacher on remuneration terms equivalent to those of a public officer mentioned in paragraph (a);
“Category C member” means any member who is neither a Category A member of the old scheme nor a Category B member of the old scheme;
“contribution”, in relation to any member, means a sum payable by the Government in respect of the member in accordance with regulation 8 or 16;
“Education Service” means the Education Scheme of Service of the Singapore Civil Service;
“Forfeiture Account” has the meaning given by the Education Service Incentive Payment (CONNECT Fund) Rules 2002;
“leave” means leave of absence;
“length of service”, in relation to a member, means the period beginning on the date the member —
is appointed (whether before, on or after 1 January 2002) to the Education Service to any grade below Superscale grade (but not the grade of General Education Officer 1 (Untrained), General Education Officer 2 (Untrained) or their equivalent); or
is employed as an aided school teacher (whether before, on or after 1 January 2002) on remuneration terms equivalent to those of a public officer appointed to the Education Service to any grade below Superscale grade (but not the grade of General Education Officer 1 (Untrained), General Education Officer 2 (Untrained) or their equivalent),and ending on 1 January of every year thereafter;
“member” means any member of the CONNECT Plan, being either —
a public officer appointed (whether before, on or after 1 January 2002) to the Education Service to any grade below Superscale grade (but not the grade of General Education Officer 1 (Untrained), General Education Officer 2 (Untrained) or their equivalent); or
an aided school teacher (whether employed before, on or after 1 January 2002) on remuneration terms equivalent to those of a public officer mentioned in paragraph (a);
“member’s account”, in relation to a member, means the subsidiary account within the CONNECT Fund which is maintained in respect of the member in accordance with the Education Service Incentive Payment (CONNECT Fund) Rules 2002;
“non-qualifying leave without pay” means any leave without pay that is not qualifying leave without pay;
“qualifying leave without pay” means any leave without pay that is regarded, under the provisions of the Instruction Manual relating to the types of leave of a member for the time being in force, as counting towards a member’s length of service for the purpose of determining service benefits;
“qualifying service” has the meanings given by regulations 4 and 5;
“serving member”, as at any specified date, means any member who, immediately before that date, is —
a public officer appointed to the Education Service to any grade below Superscale grade (but not the grade of General Education Officer 1 (Untrained), General Education Officer 2 (Untrained) or their equivalent); or
an aided school teacher on remuneration terms equivalent to those of a public officer mentioned in paragraph (a);
“specified employment” means —
employment with an employer that is specified in Part 1 of the Third Schedule; or
employment with an employer that is specified in the first column of Part 2 of the Third Schedule at a place of employment that is specified opposite in the second column;
“written warning” means a warning issued under direction 5(2) of the Public Service Commission (Delegation of Disciplinary Functions) Directions (Const., Dir 1).
Subregulation 2
For the purposes of these Regulations, a person is not regarded as being appointed to the Education Service or employed for teaching duties if the person is appointed or employed under a contract of service for a term.
Subregulation 3
In calculating the number of years of a member’s length of service, any fraction of a year must be rounded up to the next whole number.
reg 3Award Administrators
The Minister may —
appoint one or more public officers as Award Administrators to assess and pay awards to be granted or granted under these Regulations; and
give any directions that he or she thinks fit to the Award Administrators in the discharge of their duties.
Part 2
Qualifying Service
Part 3
Contributions and Awards
Part 4