Singapore legislation
Regulation 8
Regulation 8
Subregulation 1
Every transferred person included in rule 3 who immediately before his transfer held a post which was a pensionable post under the law at that date in force in Singapore shall be deemed for the purpose of such law to continue to hold such post so long as he is in the employment of the University and shall be eligible for the grant of a pension as though his service under the University were service under the Government and as though that part of his emoluments on which contributions to the University Provident Fund would have been assessed had he been a contributor to that Fund were the pensionable emoluments of such post and the Government may grant such pension in accordance with the terms of such law:Provided that the pensionable emoluments of the first holder of the post of Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the date of his retirement shall be deemed to be such amount as would be payable to him in respect of pensionable emoluments if at that date he held the substantive appointment of Deputy Director of Medical Services in the Federation of Malaya or Director of the Institute of Medical Research in the Federation of Malaya.
Subregulation 2
Every transferred person who immediately before his transfer held a post in which he would in the ordinary course have become by effluxion of time pensionable under the law at that date in force in Singapore shall be deemed for the purpose of such law to continue to hold that post so long as he is in the employment of the University and shall be eligible for the grant of a pension as though his service under the University was service under the Government and as though that part of his emoluments on which contributions to the University Provident Fund would have been assessed had he been a contributor to that Fund were the pensionable emoluments of such post and the Government may grant such pension in accordance with the terms of such law.
Subregulation 3
Where under paragraphs (1) and (2) the Government shall grant a pension to a transferred person, the University shall pay to the Government such an amount as shall bear the same proportion to the amount of pension for which he would have been eligible had his service been wholly under the Government as the aggregate amount of his pensionable emoluments during his service under the University shall bear to the aggregate amount of his pensionable emoluments during his service under both the Government and the University.
Subregulation 4
Every transferred person under paragraphs (1) and (2) who immediately before his transfer was or would become subject to the provisions of the Widows’ and Orphans’ Pension Act shall so long as he remains in the employment of the University be deemed to be a public servant within the meaning of that Act and for the purposes of the application of the provisions thereof.