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PART VI
TRANSFER OF ASSETS, LIABILITIES AND EMPLOYEES
18.
—(1) As from the appointed day, such movable and immovable property vested in the TAS and the NCB, and all assets, interests, rights, privileges, liabilities and obligations of the TAS and the NCB shall be transferred to and shall vest in the Authority without further assurance.
(2) If any question arises as to whether any particular property, or whether any particular asset, interest, right, privilege, liability or obligation has been transferred to or vested in the Authority under subsection (1), a certificate under the hand of the Minister shall be conclusive evidence that the property, asset, interest, right, privilege, liability or obligation was or was not so transferred or vested.
19.
—(1) As from the appointed day, every person employed immediately before that day by the TAS and the NCB shall be transferred to the service of the Authority on terms no less favourable than those enjoyed by them immediately prior to their transfer.
(2) Until such time as terms and conditions of service are drawn up by the Authority, the scheme and terms and conditions of service in the TAS and the NCB shall continue to apply to every person transferred to the service of the Authority under subsection (1) as if he were still in the service of the TAS or the NCB, as the case may be.
(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of the Pensions Act (Cap. 225), no person who is transferred to the service of the Authority under this section shall be entitled to claim any benefits under that Act on the ground that he has been retired from the public service on account of abolition or reorganisation of office in consequence of the incorporation of the Authority.
(4) The Authority shall continue to be liable to pay to former officers or employees of the Government, the former TAS, TAS or the Authority, as the case may be, who have retired on or before the commencement of this Act such pension benefits payable under the Pensions Act as they are entitled to and the Government shall be liable to pay to the Authority such portion of any such pension benefits payable to such former officer or employee as the same bears to the proportion which the aggregate amount of his pensionable emoluments during his service with the Government bears to the aggregate amount of his pensionable emoluments during his service under the Government, the former TAS, TAS or the Authority, as the case may be.
(5) In this section, “former TAS” means the Telecommunication Authority of Singapore established under the repealed Telecommunication Authority of Singapore Act 1974 (Act 1 of 1974).
20.
—(1) The terms and conditions to be drawn up by the Authority shall take into account the salaries and terms and conditions of service, including any accrued rights to leave, enjoyed by the persons transferred to the service of the Authority under section 19 while in the employment of the TAS or the NCB, as the case may be.
(2) Any term or condition relating to the length of service with the Authority shall provide for the recognition of service under the TAS or the NCB by the persons transferred under section 19 to be service by them under the Authority.
21. All deeds, bonds, agreements, instruments and arrangements subsisting immediately before the appointed day to which the TAS or the NCB is a party or to any employee of the TAS or the NCB transferred to the service of the Authority under section 19 shall continue in force on and after that day and shall be enforceable by or against the Authority as if the Authority had been named therein or had been a party thereto instead of the TAS or the NCB, as the case may be.
22. Any proceedings or cause of action pending or existing immediately before the appointed day by or against the TAS or the NCB or any person acting on their behalf may be continued, and shall be enforced, by or against the Authority as it might have been by or against the TAS or the NCB or such person as if this Act had not been enacted.
23.
—(1) Where on the appointed day any disciplinary proceedings were pending against any employee of the TAS or the NCB transferred to the service of the Authority, the proceedings shall be carried on and completed by the Authority; but where on that day any matter was in the course of being heard or investigated or had been heard or investigated by a committee acting under due authority but no order or decision had been rendered thereon, the committee shall complete the hearing or investigation and make such order, ruling or direction as it could have made under the authority vested in it before the appointed day.
(2) Any order, ruling or direction made or given by a committee under this section shall be treated as an order, a ruling or a direction of the Authority and have the same force or effect as if it had been made or given by the Authority pursuant to the authority vested in the Authority under this Act.
24. The Authority may reprimand, reduce in rank, retire, dismiss or punish in some other manner a person who had, whilst he was in the employment of the TAS or the NCB, been guilty of any misconduct or neglect of duty which would have rendered him liable to be reprimanded, reduced in rank, retired, dismissed or punished in some other manner if he had continued to be in the employment of the TAS or the NCB, as the case may be, and if this Act had not been enacted.