Employment of Foreign Manpower (Work Passes) (Amendment) Regulations 2008

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 31 Jan 2008

No. S 45

Employment of Foreign Manpower Act

(Chapter 91A)

Employment of Foreign Manpower (Work Passes) (Amendment) Regulations 2008

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 29 of the Employment of Foreign Manpower Act, the Minister for Manpower hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Employment of Foreign Manpower (Work Passes) (Amendment) Regulations 2008 and shall come into operation on 1st February 2008.

Amendment of regulation 2

2. Regulation 2(1) of the Employment of Foreign Manpower (Work Passes) Regulations 2007 (G.N. No. S 339/2007) (referred to in these Regulations as the principal Regulations) is amended by deleting the word “; and” at the end of sub-paragraph (ga) and substituting a semi-colon, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following sub-paragraph:

“(gb)

miscellaneous work pass; and”.

New regulation 10B

3. The principal Regulations are amended by inserting, immediately after regulation 10A, the following regulation:

“Miscellaneous work pass

10B.—(1) Every application for a miscellaneous work pass to be issued to a foreigner shall be —

(a)

made by his sponsor which must be —

(i)	a body corporate incorporated under the Companies Act (Cap. 50);
(ii)	a religious group in Singapore; or
(iii)	a school registered under the Education Act (Cap. 87);

(b)

made in such form as the Controller may determine;

(c)

accompanied by an undertaking described in paragraph (2) from the sponsor of the foreigner; and

(d)

supported by such other documents as the Controller may require.

(2) The undertaking referred to in paragraph (1)(c) shall be an undertaking by the sponsor of the foreigner in question that the sponsor would —

(a)	ensure that the standard of living (including accommodation) of the foreigner, while the foreigner is holding a miscellaneous work pass, is consistent with the reasonable standard of living in Singapore;
(b)	ensure that the foreigner complies with any quarantine and medical surveillance imposed on the foreigner under any written law;
(c)	pay the costs of the repatriation or departure from Singapore of the foreigner; and
(d)	reimburse the Government all reasonable costs it incurs in locating, detaining and removing from Singapore the foreigner.

(3) A miscellaneous work pass issued to a foreigner may be cancelled on an application to the Controller made by the sponsor of the foreigner in such form and manner as the Controller may determine.

(4) In this regulation, “religious group” includes —

(a)	any company or other body corporate incorporated under the Companies Act (Cap. 50) or any other written law for the purpose of promoting any religion, religious worship or dealing with religious affairs or practising, conducting, teaching or propagating any religious belief; and
(b)	any body of persons, whether or not registered as a society under the Societies Act (Cap. 311), whose object is the promotion of any religion, religious worship or the practice, conduct, teaching or propagating of any religious belief.”.

Amendment of Schedule

4. The Schedule to the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the full-stop at the end of item 8, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following item:

9. Miscellaneous work pass:

(a) application for a miscellaneous work pass

$40

(b) issuance of a miscellaneous work pass

$40.

[G.N. No. S 636/2007]

Made this 31st day of January 2008.

LEO YIP

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Manpower,
Singapore.

[WPSD 6:2/EFMA/05; AG/LEG/SL/91A/2003/2 Vol. 2]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 29(3) of the Employment of Foreign Manpower Act).

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