Singapore legislation
Regulation 10
of Education Service Incentive Payment (CONNECT Plan) Regulations 2002
Regulation 10
Awards on cessation of membership
Subregulation 1
Subject to the Act and these Regulations, the balance of all contributions, or any part of the contributions, standing to the credit of a member in his or her account may be awarded to the member where he or she ceases to be a member of the CONNECT Plan on one of the following grounds, and no other:
the member retires or is required to retire from the Education Service or from employment as an aided school teacher (as the case may be) other than in either of the following circumstances:
the member is required to retire in the public interest following disciplinary proceedings;
the member is required to retire in the public interest due to the member’s poor performance;
the member’s teaching service in the Education Service or as an aided school teacher (as the case may be) is terminated for a reason other than the following:
the member’s poor performance;
the member is on probation and the member’s teaching service is terminated at or before the end of the period of probation;
the member dies in service;
the member, being a public officer, is transferred to another Scheme of Service in the Singapore Civil Service;
the member, being a public officer, is transferred by any written law to the employ of any public authority established by written law or any corporation; (f)the member is promoted to the Superscale grade in the Education Service or, in the case of an aided school teacher, to a grade equivalent thereto;
the member, being an aided school teacher, ceases to be an aided school teacher on account of the aided school by which he or she is employed becoming an independent school; (h)the member resigns from the Education Service or from employment as an aided school teacher (as the case may be) for the purpose of being employed as a teacher in an independent school; (i)the member resigns from the Education Service or from employment as an aided school teacher (as the case may be) for the purpose of —
taking up employment with the Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board; or
taking up employment with the Nanyang Technological University but only if the member is deployed to work with the National Institute of Education;
the member resigns from the Education Service or from employment as an aided school teacher (as the case may be) after having completed at least 11 years of service, for the purpose of taking up specified employment, and the member —
completes at least 6 months of continuous specified employment; and
after completing 6 months of continuous specified employment, the member, within a period of 3 months, or any longer period that the Award Administrator may allow in any particular case, applies for payment of the award.
Subregulation 2
Subject to these Regulations —
an award made under any of the circumstances mentioned in paragraph (1)(a) to (i) must be paid to the member concerned as soon as practicable after the member’s account is closed; or
an award made under any of the circumstances mentioned in paragraph (1)(j) must be paid to the member concerned as soon as practicable after the member’s application for payment of the award is granted.