Employment Agency Rules - Singapore Statutes Online

Employment Agencies Act

(CHAPTER 92, Section 29)

Employment Agency Rules

R 1

G.N. No. S 216/1984

REVISED EDITION 1990

(25th March 1992)

[24th August 1984]

Citation

1. These Rules may be cited as the Employment Agency Rules.

Definitions

2. In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires —

“applicant for employment” means any person applying for employment, work or contract or hire of his services at an employment agency;

“applicant for workers” means any person applying for the procurement of any worker for his service at an employment agency.

Application for licence

3. An application for the grant or renewal of a licence shall be in the Form A set out in the First Schedule.

Enquires

4. The Commissioner may make such enquiries as he thinks fit before or after granting a licence.

Security

5. The Commissioner may, before granting or renewing a licence, require the applicant to furnish a cash security deposit or a bank guarantee of $10,000.

Persons to whom a licence may not be granted

6. No licence shall be granted under the Act to —

(a)

any undischarged bankrupt;

(b)

any person convicted of an offence under —

(i)	sections 140, 141, 142, 146 and 148 of the Women’s Charter;
(ii)	sections 25 and 26 of the Children and Young Persons Act [Cap. 38]; or
(iii)	sections 366, 367, 370, 371, 372, 373, 373A and 374A of the Penal Code [Cap. 224]; or

(c)

any person convicted of an offence involving dishonesty under the Penal Code.

Validity of licence

7. A licence granted under the Act shall be valid only in respect of the type of employment specified in the licence.

Fee

8.—(1) No licence shall be granted or renewed under the Act until the prescribed fee therefor has been paid.

(2) The fee payable for the grant or renewal of a licence shall be $250 per annum.

Separate licence

9. A separate licence shall be taken out for each employment agency.

Restriction on licensee and on premises

10. The licence granted under the Act shall not be used directly or indirectly by any person other than the one in whose favour it was granted nor at any premises other than that specified in the licence nor shall it be transferred or assigned to any other person.

Foreign recruitment

11. No employment agency shall place in or recruit persons for work from a place outside Singapore without the written consent of the Commissioner.

Licence to be displayed

12. Every licensee shall display the licence granted to him under the Act in a conspicuous place in the office of the employment agency in respect of which the licence has been granted.

Change of place of business

13. No licensee shall move the place of business of the employment agency without the previous consent in writing of the Commissioner.

Registers

14. Every licensee shall cause to be kept —

(a)	a register of applicants for employment in the Form B set out in the First Schedule; and
(b)	a register of applicants for workers in the Form C set out in the First Schedule.

Monthly returns

15. The monthly returns required to be submitted under section 11 of the Act shall be in the Forms D, E, F and G set out in the First Schedule.

Scale of fees

16.—(1) The fees that may be received by an employment agency from an applicant for employment or from an applicant for workers respectively shall be in accordance with the scale set out in the Second Schedule.

(2) Every licensee shall exhibit in a conspicuous place in the office of the employment agency a copy of the scale set out in the Second Schedule.

Penalty

17. Any person who contravenes rule 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 or 16(2) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction in the case of a first offence to a fine not exceeding $1,000 and in the case of a second or subsequent offence to a fine not exceeding $2,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both.

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