Singapore legislation
Regulation 7
of Education Service Incentive Payment (CONNECT Plan) Regulations 2002
Regulation 7
Cessation of membership
Subregulation 1
A member ceases to be a member of the CONNECT Plan when —
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;
the member’s teaching service in the Education service or in an aided school, as the case may be, is terminated;
the member resigns from the Education Service (other than for the purpose of being employed as an aided school teacher without break in service) or from employment as an aided school teacher (other than for the purpose of being appointed to the Education Service without break in service), as the case may be;
the member is on probation and his or her teaching service is terminated at or before the end of the period of probation;
the member dies in service;
the member is dismissed from the Education Service or from employment as an aided school teacher, or has vacated his or her office;
the member, being a public officer, is transferred (by any written law or otherwise) from the Education Service to another Scheme of Service in the Singapore Civil Service or to the employ of any other body;
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; or
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.
Subregulation 2
A member’s account is to be closed with effect from the date he or she ceases to be a member of the CONNECT Plan and, except as provided in the circumstances referred to in regulation 13, no further contributions are payable to his or her member’s account.