Platform Workers (Administrative Penalties) Regulations 2024

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 26 Dec 2024

No. S 1011

Platform Workers Act 2024

Platform Workers
(Administrative Penalties)
Regulations 2024

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 96 of the Platform Workers Act 2024, the Minister for Manpower makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations are the Platform Workers (Administrative Penalties) Regulations 2024 and come into operation on 1 January 2025.

Administrative penalties

2. For the purposes of section 77(1) and (3) of the Act, the administrative penalties specified in the second and third columns of the Schedule are payable in respect of the civil contraventions specified opposite in the first column.

Request for internal reconsideration

3.—(1) For the purposes of section 78(1)(a) of the Act, a request by a person or platform operator for an internal reconsideration of a contravention notice must be made within 14 days after the person or platform operator (as the case may be) receives the contravention notice.

(2) A person or platform operator may withdraw a request for an internal reconsideration of a contravention notice at any time before a reviewing authorised officer confirms or cancels the contravention notice under section 78(3) of the Act.

(3) A request for an internal reconsideration or a withdrawal of the request (as the case may be) must be made in the form and manner specified on the website of the Ministry of Manpower at https://www.mom.gov.sg.

(4) A request for an internal reconsideration is treated as withdrawn if, after the request is made but before a reviewing authorised officer confirms or cancels the contravention notice, an initial authorised officer is served with an originating application concerning an appeal to the General Division of the High Court against the same contravention notice.

(5) A reviewing authorised officer may refuse to reconsider a contravention notice if the request for an internal reconsideration is not made in accordance with paragraph (1) or (3).

Appeal to General Division of High Court

4.—(1) For the purposes of section 78(1)(b) of the Act, an appeal by a person or platform operator to the General Division of the High Court against a contravention notice must be made within 14 days after the person or platform operator (as the case may be) receives the contravention notice.

(2) For the purposes of section 78(4) of the Act, an appeal by a person or platform operator to the General Division of the High Court against a reviewing authorised officer’s decision under section 78(3)(a) of the Act must be made within 14 days after the person or platform operator (as the case may be) receives the reviewing authorised officer’s decision.

Made on 19 December 2024.

NG CHEE KHERN

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Manpower,
Singapore.

[HQ/Legis/PWAct/Dec2024_3c; AG/LEGIS/SL/232D/2020/8]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 96(4) of the Platform Workers Act 2024).

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