Singapore legislation
Regulation 8
Regulation 8
Reckonable service
Subregulation 1
For the purposes of determining the amount of contribution to be credited to the Retirement Account, Savings Account and CPF Top-Up Account of a Category A member, or the SAVER Account of a Category B member, the following periods of service, subject to any deduction to be made under regulation 9, shall be regarded as reckonable service:
the period during which the member is an officer, a military expert or a soldier in regular service on full pay in the Singapore Armed Forces;
any period (on or after 1st January 1998) of officer cadet training immediately preceding the member’s appointment as an officer on full-pay in the Singapore Armed Forces;
the period of full-time national service that has been rendered by a full-time national serviceman prior to his enlistment as an officer in the regular service of the Singapore Armed Forces;
the period of service which qualifies a mobilised volunteer or national serviceman in the People’s Defence Force for an award of a pension under the Pensions Act 1956 and which is converted on a one-for-one basis to regular service under these Regulations upon the mobilised volunteer or national serviceman, as the case may be, being absorbed into the regular service of the Singapore Armed Forces on or after 1st April 1998;
the period of mobilised service of a volunteer or national serviceman in the People’s Defence Force that is rendered immediately prior to his absorption on or after 1st January 1998 into the regular service if that service has not been counted as regular service under sub-paragraph (d);
service which qualifies for the award of a pension in the Government or in any statutory body of a member seconded to the Singapore Armed Forces in respect of service rendered immediately prior to his secondment and which is converted on a one-for-one basis to regular service under these Regulations on his absorption into the regular service as an officer on or after 1st April 1998;
service on secondment to the Singapore Armed Forces of a member immediately prior to his absorption into the regular service as an officer on or after 1st April 1998 if that service has not been regarded as regular service under sub-paragraph (f);
service which a member has rendered on contract in the Singapore Armed Forces prior to his conversion on or after 1st April 1998 to the regular service;
any period of service in any other armed forces which may be allowed to count as reckonable service by the Armed Forces Council, subject to such conditions as the Armed Forces Council may impose;
periods of confinement as a prisoner of war;
pensionable service in the Government of a member rendered immediately prior to his absorption on or after 1st April 1998 into the regular service of the Singapore Armed Forces and which is converted on a one-for-one basis to regular service under these Regulations if such member had been a full-time national serviceman;
any period during which a member has been absent from duty on leave with half-pay;
(la)any period of no pay maternity leave;
(lb)any period of unpaid infant care leave or unpaid leave for unexpected care needs, as the Armed Forces Council may determine in a General Order;
part-time regular service but to be counted on the basis of the proportion the part-time regular service bears to full-time regular service over the same period;
pensionable service in the Government of a member rendered immediately prior to his absorption into the regular service of the Singapore Armed Forces and which the Armed Forces Council has determined shall count as regular service under these Regulations, subject to such conditions as the Armed Forces Council may impose; and
such service other than in the Government as the Armed Forces Council has determined shall count as regular service under these Regulations, subject to such conditions as the Armed Forces Council may impose.
Subregulation 2
Where a member to whom sub-paragraph (e) or (g) of paragraph (1) applies has received a gratuity in respect of the service referred to in those sub-paragraphs, the Armed Forces Council shall, as a condition of allowing such service to count as reckonable service under these Regulations, require the member to repay the gratuity to the Government either in a lump sum or otherwise and, in default of such repayment, the previous service shall not be allowed to count as reckonable service.
Subregulation 3
In respect of any such service on or after 1st April 1972, the amount of contributions to the Central Provident Fund or any approved fund to be repaid to the Government shall exclude the amount so paid on account of the member with respect to such service if he was in the regular service or an equivalent amount if he was not in the regular service.