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Financial Sector Regulation Act, 2017 (Act No. 9 of 2017)

Chapter 17 : Miscellaneous

Part 6 : Amendments, repeals, transitional and saving provisions

294. Transfer of staff of Financial Services Board

 

(1)

(a) At the date on which this section comes into effect, the staff of the Financial Services Board must be transferred to the Financial Sector Conduct Authority and the South African Reserve Bank, respectively, in accordance with section 197 of the Labour Relations Act, 1995 (Act No. 66 of 1995).
(b) Any reference in section 197 of the Labour Relations Act, 1995, to—
(i) the "old employer" must be read as a reference to the Financial Services Board; and
(ii) the "new employer" must be read as a reference to the Financial Sector Conduct Authority or the South African Reserve Bank, as the case may be, in respect of the staff to be transferred to either of these entities.
(c) The agreements referred to in section 197 of the Labour Relations Act, 1995, must address the transfer of the staff of the Financial Services Board to the pension fund of the South African Reserve Bank, where applicable.

 

(2) The Financial Sector Conduct Authority, at the date on which this section comes into effect, becomes liable for the liability of the Financial Services Board to subsidise the cost of the contributions payable to a medical scheme registered under the Medical Schemes Act by—
(a) a person who was employed by the Financial Services Board as at 1 January 1998 and remained continuously so employed until he or she retired from the Financial Services Board; or
(b) a person who was the spouse or dependant of a person contemplated in paragraph (a) at the time of the person’s retirement from the Financial Services Board, or the person’s death while employed by the Financial Services Board.

 

(3) If the benefit payable to a member in terms of the rules of the Financial Services Board Pension Fund on retirement would have been subject to special tax treatment, the benefit payable to that employee on his or her retirement by the pension fund of the Financial Sector Conduct Authority and the South African Reserve Bank, if applicable, must be subject to the same tax treatment.

 

(4) At the date on which this section comes into effect, the pension fund of the Financial Services Board becomes the pension fund of the Financial Sector Conduct Authority.

 

 


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