Travel Agents (Amendment) Act 1993 - Singapore Statutes Online

REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE

ACTS SUPPLEMENT

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NO. 36]

Friday, December 3

[1993

The following Act was passed by Parliament on 30th July 1993 and assented to by the President on 27th August 1993:—

Travel Agents (Amendment) Act 1993

(No. 24 of 1993)

I assent.

WEE KIM WEE

President.

27th August 1993.

Date of Commencement: 3rd December 1993

An Act to amend the Travel Agents Act (Chapter 334 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 Travel Agents (Amendment) Act 1993 and shall come into operation on such date as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint.

Amendment of section 2

2. Section 2 of the Travel Agents Act (referred to in this Act as the principal Act) is amended by deleting the definitions of “Committee” and “Compensation Fund”.

Amendment of section 11

3. Section 11 of the principal Act is amended —

(a)	by inserting, immediately after the word “revoke” in the first line of subsection (1), the words “or suspend”;
(b)	by inserting, immediately after the word “Act” in subsection (1)(a)(vi), the words “or any regulations made thereunder”;
(c)	by inserting, immediately after the word “revoking” in the first line of subsection (2), the words “or suspending”;
(d)	by inserting, immediately after the word “revocation” in subsections (2), (3), (4) and (5), the words “or suspension”;
(e)	by inserting, immediately after the word “revoked” in subsections (2), (3) and (4), the words “or suspended”; and
(f)	by inserting, immediately after the word “Revocation” in the marginal note, the words “and suspension”.

Amendment of section 12

4. Section 12 of the principal Act is amended —

(a)	by inserting, immediately after the word “revocation” in subsections (1) and (2), the words “or suspension”; and
(b)	by inserting, immediately after the word “revocation” in the marginal note, the words “and suspension”.

Repeal of Part III

5. Part III of the principal Act is repealed.

New section 31A

6. The principal Act is amended by inserting, immediately after section 31, the following section:

“Compounding of offences

31A.—(1) The Board may, in its discretion, compound any offence under this Act or any regulations made thereunder which is prescribed as a compoundable offence by collecting from a person reasonably suspected of having committed the offence a sum not exceeding $1,000.

(2) The Board may, with the approval of the Minister, make regulations to prescribe the offences which may be compounded.”.

Amendment of section 32

7. Section 32 (1) of the principal Act is amended by deleting paragraph (f).

Transitional provisions

8.—(1) Upon the date of commencement of this Act, all moneys remaining in the Compensation Fund established under the repealed section 13 of the principal Act (referred to in this section as the Fund) shall be transferred to the Tourist Promotion Fund established under section 12 of the Tourist Promotion Board Act (Cap. 328).

(2) All moneys transferred to the Tourist Promotion Fund under subsection (1) shall be credited to a special account and shall, notwithstanding section 13 of the Tourist Promotion Board Act, be applied for the purpose specified in subsection (3) and for such other purposes for the benefit of travel agents as the Board may determine.

(3) Where a person had, before the date of commencement of this Act or within 3 months after that date, applied for a payment from the Fund and on that date the application —

(a)	had been disposed of and a determination had been made to pay a grant but such payment had not been made, the Board shall pay to the applicant the amount so determined; or
(b)	had not been determined, the Compensation Fund Committee shall determine the application and the Board shall pay to the applicant a grant of the amount so determined.

(4) For the purposes of subsection (3)(b), the Compensation Fund Committee established under section 13 of the principal Act in force immediately before the date of commencement of this Act shall continue to exist and shall determine any application under subsection (3)(b) in accordance with section 15 of the principal Act as if this Act had not been enacted.

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