13. Safeguarding of Municipal Provident Fund benefits

Rules for the maintenance of the Municipal Provident Fund shall be binding upon the Authority and its employees who were members of the Municipal Provident Fund immediately before the commencement of this Act.

Until other provision is made, the Municipal (Provident Fund) Rules 1956 [S 179/56] shall continue to apply to every person transferred to the service of the Authority under section 12(1)(a) who, immediately before the commencement of this Act, was a member of the Municipal Provident Fund, in the like manner as those Rules applied to such person 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 Authority in respect of such person.

Until other provision is made, the provisions of the Municipal (Provident Fund) Rules 1956 requiring the City Council to make payments into the Municipal Provident Fund shall apply to the Authority and be construed as provisions requiring the Authority to make payments into that Fund in respect of every person referred to in section 12(1)(a) who is a member of the Fund.

Persons who have been transferred to the service of the Authority under section 12(1)(a) may count their previous service in the Singapore Improvement Trust or the Housing and Development Board 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.