§ 51 — Transfer of employees and secondees to Agency

51.—(1) On the transfer date, every transferring HPB employee and every transferring MOH employee —(a)

stops being an employee of the Health Promotion Board or the Government, as the case may be; and

(b)

is each transferred to the service, and becomes an employee, of the Agency on terms no less favourable than those enjoyed by the employee on the eve of the transfer date.

(2) A certificate signed by the Minister certifying whether an individual named in the certificate has been transferred to the service of the Agency under subsection (1) is admissible in evidence in any proceedings as proof of the matters stated in the certificate.

(3) The transfer under subsection (1) of a transferring HPB employee or a transferring MOH employee (as the case may be) to the service of the Agency —(a)

does not interrupt continuity of that employee’s service;

(b)

does not constitute a retrenchment or redundancy of that employee’s employment by the Health Promotion Board or the Government, as the case may be; and

(c)

does not entitle that employee to any compensation or other payment or benefit merely because he or she stops being employed by the Health Promotion Board or the Government, as the case may be.

(4) Nothing in this section prevents —(a)

any of the terms and conditions of employment of an individual transferred to the service of the Agency under subsection (1) from being altered by or under any law, award or agreement with effect from any time after the transfer date; and

(b)

an individual transferred to the service of the Agency under subsection (1) from resigning from that service any time after the transfer date, in accordance with the terms and conditions of his or her employment then applicable.

(5) To avoid doubt, section 18A of the Employment Act 1968 does not apply to the transfer under this Part of any transferring HPB employee or transferring MOH employee to the service of the Agency.

(6) On the transfer date, every public officer seconded to any of the departments of the transferor as specified in the Schedule under either of the following that is in force on the eve of the transfer date, continues on secondment to the Agency:(a)

an arrangement made by the Government;

(b)

an agreement or arrangement between the Government and the Health Promotion Board.

(7) On the transfer date, every employee of a public body seconded to any of the departments of the transferor as specified in the Schedule under an agreement or arrangement between the transferor and that public body that is in force on the eve of the transfer date, continues on secondment to the Agency.

—(1) On the transfer date, every transferring HPB employee and every transferring MOH employee —(a)

stops being an employee of the Health Promotion Board or the Government, as the case may be; and

(b)

is each transferred to the service, and becomes an employee, of the Agency on terms no less favourable than those enjoyed by the employee on the eve of the transfer date.

(2) A certificate signed by the Minister certifying whether an individual named in the certificate has been transferred to the service of the Agency under subsection (1) is admissible in evidence in any proceedings as proof of the matters stated in the certificate.

(3) The transfer under subsection (1) of a transferring HPB employee or a transferring MOH employee (as the case may be) to the service of the Agency —(a)

does not interrupt continuity of that employee’s service;

(b)

does not constitute a retrenchment or redundancy of that employee’s employment by the Health Promotion Board or the Government, as the case may be; and

(c)

does not entitle that employee to any compensation or other payment or benefit merely because he or she stops being employed by the Health Promotion Board or the Government, as the case may be.

(4) Nothing in this section prevents —(a)

any of the terms and conditions of employment of an individual transferred to the service of the Agency under subsection (1) from being altered by or under any law, award or agreement with effect from any time after the transfer date; and

(b)

an individual transferred to the service of the Agency under subsection (1) from resigning from that service any time after the transfer date, in accordance with the terms and conditions of his or her employment then applicable.

(5) To avoid doubt, section 18A of the Employment Act 1968 does not apply to the transfer under this Part of any transferring HPB employee or transferring MOH employee to the service of the Agency.

(6) On the transfer date, every public officer seconded to any of the departments of the transferor as specified in the Schedule under either of the following that is in force on the eve of the transfer date, continues on secondment to the Agency:(a)

an arrangement made by the Government;

(b)

an agreement or arrangement between the Government and the Health Promotion Board.

(7) On the transfer date, every employee of a public body seconded to any of the departments of the transferor as specified in the Schedule under an agreement or arrangement between the transferor and that public body that is in force on the eve of the transfer date, continues on secondment to the Agency.