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4 PART I PRELIMINARY Short title and commencement

1. This Act may be cited as the Children Development Co-Savings Act 2001 and shall come into operation on such date as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint.

Interpretation

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—

"approved person" means a person approved by the Minister as an approved person under the regulations made under section 7;

"bank account" means a bank account opened under the regulations made under section 3;

"confinement" means the delivery of a child;

"Edusave account" has the same meaning as in the Education Endowment Scheme Act (Cap. 87A);

"eligible child" means a child who is eligible for membership of the Scheme under the regulations made under section 3;

"employee" means any person who has entered into or works under a contract of service with an employer in Singapore, and includes a workman and any officer or employee of the Government included in a category, class or description of such officers or employees declared by the Minister to be employees for the purposes of this Act;

"employer" means any person who employs another person under a contract of service and includes—
 * (a) the Government in respect of such categories, classes or descriptions of officers or employees of the Government as are declared from time to time by the Minister to be employees for the purposes of this Act;
 * (b) any statutory authority;