Foreign Employee Dormitories (Amendment) Regulations 2023

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 31 Mar 2023

No. S 173

Foreign Employee Dormitories Act 2015

Foreign Employee Dormitories
(Amendment) Regulations 2023

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 34 of the Foreign Employee Dormitories Act 2015, the Minister for Manpower makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations are the Foreign Employee Dormitories (Amendment) Regulations 2023 and come into operation on 1 April 2023.

Amendment of regulation 4

2. In the Foreign Employee Dormitories Regulations 2015 (G.N. No. S 766/2015) (called in these Regulations the principal Regulations), in regulation 4(2), replace “1,000” with “7”.

New regulation 4A

3. In the principal Regulations, after regulation 4, insert —

“Classes of licences

4A. Licences are subdivided into the following classes:

(a)	a Class 1 licence, which authorises the person granted this licence to operate any boarding premises as a foreign employee dormitory with an occupancy load of at least 7 beds but not more than 99 beds;
(b)	a Class 2 licence, which authorises the person granted this licence to operate any boarding premises as a foreign employee dormitory with an occupancy load of at least 100 beds but not more than 299 beds;
(c)	a Class 3 licence, which authorises the person granted this licence to operate any boarding premises as a foreign employee dormitory with an occupancy load of at least 300 beds but not more than 999 beds;
(d)	a Class 4 licence, which authorises the person granted this licence to operate any boarding premises as a foreign employee dormitory with an occupancy load of 1,000 beds or more.”.

Amendment of regulation 5

4. In the principal Regulations, in regulation 5(1) and (2), replace “12,000” with “15,000”.

Made on 31 March 2023.

CHIA DER JIUN

Permanent Secretary
(Development),
Ministry of Manpower,
Singapore.

[HQ/Legis/FEDA/FEDR_Apr2023; AG/LEGIS/SL/111B/2020/7 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 34(6) of the Foreign Employee Dormitories Act 2015).

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