10. Safeguarding of Provident Fund benefits

Until rules are made under section 12, the Municipal (Provident Fund) Rules 1956, as from time to time amended, shall continue to apply to every person transferred to the service of the Government under section 9 who, immediately before the commencement of this Act, was a member of the Municipal Provident Fund, or would have been eligible for membership of that Fund if he had attained the age of 20 years and had passed a medical examination of the standard prescribed, in the like manner as those Rules applied to such persons immediately before the commencement of this Act, and every reference to service or employment with the City Council in those Rules shall be construed as a reference to service or employment with the Government in respect of such persons.

Until rules are made under section 12, the provisions of the Municipal (Provident Fund) Rules 1956, as from time to time amended, requiring the City Council to make payments into the Municipal Provident Fund shall apply to the Government and be construed as provisions requiring the Government to make payments into that Fund in respect of every person referred to in subsection (1) who is or who becomes a member of the Fund.

Persons who have been transferred to the service of the Government under section 9 may count their previous service in the City Council, and their previous membership of the Municipal Provident Fund and their contributions to that Fund, for the purpose of determining the benefits to which they become entitled under this section.