No. S 220
Telecommunications Act
(Chapter 323)
Telecommunications (Cable Detection Workers) (Amendment) Regulations 2007
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 74 of the Telecommunications Act, the Info-communications Development Authority of Singapore, with the approval of the Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Telecommunications (Cable Detection Workers) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 and shall come into operation on 1st June 2007.
Amendment of regulation 8
2.  The Telecommunications (Cable Detection Workers) Regulations (Rg 4) (referred to in these Regulations as the principal Regulations) are amended by renumbering regulation 8 as paragraph (1) of that regulation, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following paragraphs:
(2)  It shall be a condition of every licence that the licensee shall carry out his duties as a telecommunication cable detection worker in a safe, careful and proper manner.
(3)  A licensee shall not cause any telecommunication cable detection work to be carried out by any person, whether employed by him or otherwise, who is not a licensee.”.
Amendment of regulation 10
3.  Regulation 10 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting paragraph (3) and substituting the following paragraph:
(3)  Where the Authority is satisfied in any case that a licensee has failed to comply with the condition referred to in regulation 8 (2), the Authority may, without prejudice to any other action that it is entitled to take under the Act or these Regulations, order the licensee to undergo such retraining as the Authority may specify for a period not exceeding 12 months.”.
Amendment of regulation 14
4.  Regulation 14 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the words “regulation 8 (b), (c), (d) or (e)” in paragraph (a) and substituting the words “regulation 8 (1) (b), (c), (d) or (e) or (3)”.
[G.N. No. S 477/2005]

Made this 16th day of May 2007.

LAM CHUAN LEONG
Chairman,
Info-communications Development
Authority of Singapore.
[IDA/LGL/3.3/REG-03; AG/LEG/SL/323/2000/1 Vol. 7]