Immigration (Amendment No. 2) Bill

Bill No. 36/1989

Read the first time on 4th August 1989.

An Act to amend the Immigration Act (Chapter 133 of the 1985 Revised Edition).

Be it enacted by the President with the advice and consent of the Parliament of Singapore, as follows:

Short title and commencement

1. This Act may be cited as the Immigration (Amendment No. 2) Act 1989 and shall come into operation on such date as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint.

Amendment of section 57

2. Section 57 of the Immigration Act is amended —

(a)

by deleting the words “section 6” in paragraph (e) of subsection (1) and substituting the words “section 6(1)”;

(b)

by inserting, immediately before the word “in” in the first line of sub-paragraph (ii) of subsection (1), the words “subject to subsection (1A),”;

(c)

by deleting sub-paragraph (iii) of subsection (1) and substituting the following sub-paragraph:

“(iii)

in the case of an offence under paragraph (c) shall be punished with imprisonment for a term of not less than 2 years and not more than 5 years and shall also be punished, subject to section 231 of the Criminal Procedure Code [Cap. 68], with caning with not less than 3 strokes; and”; and

(d)

by inserting, immediately after subsection (1), the following subsection:

“(1A) Where in the case of any offence under subsection (1)(e), it is proved to the satisfaction of the court that the defendant has at the same time employed more than 5 persons with the actual knowledge that those persons have acted in contravention of section 6(1), 15 or 36, the defendant shall be punished, subject to section 231 of the Criminal Procedure Code [Cap. 68], with caning in addition to the punishment prescribed for that offence.”.

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