Employment of Foreign Workers (Amendment) Bill

Bill No. 38/1998

Read the first time on 4th September 1998.

An Act to amend the Employment of Foreign Workers Act (Cap 91A of the 1997 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 Employment of Foreign Workers (Amendment) Act 1998 and shall come into operation on such date as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint.

Amendment of section 3

2. Section 3 of the Employment of Foreign Workers Act (referred to in this Act as the principal Act) is amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately after the word “Act” in subsection (1), the words “and such number of Deputy Controllers of Work Permits and Assistant Controllers of Work Permits as the Minister may think necessary to assist the Controller in the proper discharge of his functions”; and

(b)

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

“(1A) The Deputy Controllers of Work Permits and the Assistant Controllers of Work Permits shall have and may exercise and perform all the powers, duties and functions of the Controller conferred by this Act, subject to such limitations as the Controller may think fit to impose.”.

Amendment of section 14

3. Section 14(1) of the principal Act is amended by deleting the words “14 days” in the third line and substituting the words “7 days”.

Amendment of section 29

4. Section 29(2) of the principal Act is amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately after the word “offence” in paragraph (a), the words “and shall be punishable with a fine not exceeding $5,000 or with imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or with both”; and

(b)

by deleting the full-stop at the end of paragraph (b) and substituting a semicolon, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following paragraph:

“(c)	provide for the taking and recording of finger impressions of any person who applies for or has been issued with a work permit and for the dissemination of such records to the police.”.

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