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Formal Consolidation |  2002 RevEd
Licensing of water service worker
40.—(1)  Subject to subsection (3), no person shall —
(a)perform or carry out personally any water service work or offer or undertake to perform or carry out personally any such work; or
(b)advertise or otherwise hold himself out as a water service worker or as a licensed water service worker, or as a person competent or qualified or legally permitted personally to perform or carry out water service work,
unless he is licensed as a water service worker in respect of that water service work.
(2)  The Board may —
(a)grant, suspend, cancel, alter, extend, renew or replace any water service worker licence granted under this section;
(b)classify any water service worker licence in such manner as it determines;
(c)specify the nature of the water service work in respect of which a water service worker licence is granted and restrict such work to any type or class of water service work or any type or class of water service installation;
(d)specify the circumstances or manner in which the holder of a water service worker licence may perform or carry out water service work; or
(e)attach any exemptions to any water service worker licence or impose any terms, conditions or restrictions thereon.
(3)  The Board may, from time to time, by notification in the Gazette, specify any water service work which may be carried out by any person without a water service worker licence granted under this section.
(4)  Any person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years or to both.
(5)  Where an offence is committed under this section by any person who is the agent, employee or sub-contractor of another person, that other person shall be liable under this section in the same manner and to the same extent as if he had personally committed the offence unless he proves that the offence was committed without his knowledge and that he exercised all due diligence to prevent the commission of the offence.
(6)  This section shall not apply to any employee of the Board in the performance of his duties or any professional engineer registered under the Professional Engineers Act (Cap. 253).
Informal Consolidation | Amended Act 11 of 2018
40.  [Deleted by Act 11 of 2018 wef 01/04/2018]