Retirement and Re-employment Act 1993 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 2 · Prescribed Minimum Retirement Age
4. Prescribed minimum retirement age
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The Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, specify the prescribed minimum retirement age applicable to any class of employees, which must be at least 62 years but not more than 65 years.
prescribed minimum retirement age
“prescribed minimum retirement age” means such other minimum retirement age as may be prescribed by the Minister under section 4(1);
Despite any other written law, contract of service or collective agreement, an employer must not dismiss an employee on the ground of age before that employee attains the employee’s prescribed minimum retirement age.
contract of service
“contract of service” means any agreement, whether in writing or oral, express or implied, whereby one person agrees to employ another as an employee and that other agrees to serve his or her employer as an employee;
An employer who contravenes subsection (2) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $5,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both.
employer
“employer” means a person who employs another person under a contract of service and includes —(a)the Government;(b)any statutory authority;(c)any duly authorised agent or manager of any employer; and(d)any person who owns or is carrying on, or for the time being responsible for the management or control of a profession, business, trade or work in which any employee is engaged;