Professional Engineers (Amendment) Bill

Bill No. 35/1994

Read the first time on 5th December 1994.

An Act to amend the Professional Engineers Act (Chapter 253 of the 1992 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 Professional Engineers (Amendment) Act 1994 and shall come into operation on such date as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint.

Amendment of section 10

2. Section 10 of the Professional Engineers Act (referred to in this Act as the principal Act) is amended —

(a)	by inserting, immediately after the word “supply” in the second line of subsection (5), the words “or offer to supply”; and
(b)	by deleting the words “at the time of so doing” wherever they appear in subsections (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5).

Amendment of section 20

3. Section 20 of the principal Act is amended —

(a)

by deleting paragraph (c) of subsection (1) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(c)	the articles of association of the corporation provide that the chairman and at least two-thirds of the directors of the corporation shall be registered professional engineers or allied professionals;”;

(b)

by deleting paragraph (d) of subsection (1);

(c)

by inserting, at the end of sub-paragraph (i) of subsection (1)(e), the word “and”;

(d)

by deleting sub-paragraph (iii) of subsection (1)(e);

(e)

by deleting paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (2) and substituting the following paragraphs:

“(a)

the memorandum of association of the corporation provides that a primary object of the corporation is to supply such professional engineering services;

(b)

the articles of association of the corporation provide that —

(i)

no person shall be a director of the corporation unless he is a registered professional engineer or an allied professional; and

(ii)

no person shall be registered as a member of that corporation —

(A)	unless he is a registered professional engineer or an allied professional and a director, a manager or an employee of the corporation; or
(B)	if he is a nominee of a person who is not a registered professional engineer or an allied professional; and”;”;

(f)

by deleting the words “subsections (1)(c) and (2)(b) and (c)” in subsection (4)(a) and substituting the words “subsection (2)(b) and (c)”; and

(g)

by deleting “(d)(ii),” in subsection (4)(b).

Amendment of section 21

4. Section 21 of the principal Act is amended by deleting subsections (1) and (2) and substituting the following subsections:

“(1) It shall be a condition of every licence granted to any corporation or partnership that the corporation or partnership shall supply professional engineering services in Singapore only under the control and management of a registered professional engineer who —

(a)	is ordinarily resident in Singapore; and
(b)	has in force a practising certificate authorising him to engage in professional engineering work to which those services relate,

and who is —

(i)	in the case of a corporation other than an unlimited corporation, a director of the corporation;
(ii)	in the case of an unlimited corporation which has a share capital, a director and registered owner of at least one share of the corporation;
(iii)	in the case of an unlimited corporation which does not have any share capital, a director and member of the corporation; or
(iv)	in the case of a partnership, a partner thereof.

(2) It shall be a condition of every licence granted to any corporation, other than an unlimited corporation, that the corporation shall not supply professional engineering services in Singapore unless the corporation is insured in respect of professional liability in accordance with section 24 and the rules.”.

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