Employment of Foreign Workers (Levy) (Amendment) Order 2003

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 07 May 2003

No. S 231

Employment of Foreign Workers Act

(Chapter 91A)

Employment of Foreign Workers (Levy) (Amendment) Order 2003

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 11(1) of the Employment of Foreign Workers Act, the Minister for Manpower hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Employment of Foreign Workers (Levy) (Amendment) Order 2003 and shall be deemed to have come into operation on 1st May 2003.

Amendment of paragraph 2

2. Paragraph 2 of the Employment of Foreign Workers (Levy) Order (O 1) (referred to in this Order as the principal Order) is amended by inserting, immediately after the definition of “harbour craft worker”, the following definition:

“ “hotel worker” means any person who is engaged in any occupation in a tourist hotel as defined in section 2 of the Singapore Tourism (Cess Collection) Act (Cap. 305C);”.

New paragraph 25A

3. The principal Order is amended by inserting, immediately after paragraph 25, the following paragraph:

“Hotel workers

25A. The levy payable in respect of any hotel worker shall be —

(a)	at the rate of $120 for every calendar month; and
(b)	where the hotel worker is employed for part of a month, at the rate of $4 for every day during which the hotel worker is employed in that month.”.

Amendment of paragraph 26

4. Paragraph 26 of the principal Order is amended by deleting the words “paragraphs 4 to 25” and substituting the words “paragraphs 4 to 25 and 25A”.

Made this 30th day of April 2003.

YONG YING-I

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Manpower,
Singapore.

[WP(S) 14:06; AG/LEG/SL/91A/2003/1 VOL. 1]

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