Professional Engineers (Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics) (Amendment) Rules 2016

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 01 Feb 2016

No. S 48

Professional Engineers Act

(CHAPTER 253)

Professional Engineers
(Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics)
(Amendment) Rules 2016

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 36 of the Professional Engineers Act, the Professional Engineers Board, with the approval of the Minister for National Development, makes the following Rules:

Citation and commencement

1. These Rules are the Professional Engineers (Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics) (Amendment) Rules 2016 and come into operation on 1 February 2016.

Amendment of Part I of Schedule

2. Part I of the Schedule to the Professional Engineers (Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics) Rules (R 3) is amended —

(a)

by deleting paragraph 4 and substituting the following paragraph:

“4.—(1) A professional engineer must not supply professional engineering services in respect of any project if the professional engineer, or any nominee of his, is a partner, an officer or an employee of —

(a)	a housing developer of the project; or
(b)	an associate of a housing developer of the project.

(2) In this paragraph, an associate of a housing developer means any of the following persons:

(a)

a body corporate in which the housing developer is a substantial shareholder as defined in section 81 of the Companies Act (Cap. 50);

(b)

a body corporate of which the housing developer is a director, secretary or similar executive officer;

(c)

if the housing developer is a body corporate —

(i)	a person who is a substantial shareholder, as defined in section 81 of the Companies Act, of the body corporate; or
(ii)	a director, secretary or similar executive officer of the body corporate;

(d)

where the housing developer is a trustee of a discretionary trust, a beneficiary or an object of the discretionary trust;

(e)

an employer of the housing developer.”; and

(b)

by deleting paragraph 7 and substituting the following paragraph:

“7. If a claim by a professional engineer for remuneration of his professional services in a project is made on a developer of the project and is not satisfied, another professional engineer must not, knowingly and without reasonable grounds, accept or continue with an engagement to provide professional services to the developer of that project.”.

[G.N. Nos. S 234/99; S 671/2003]

Made on 28 January 2016.

HO SIONG HIN

President,
Professional Engineers Board,
Singapore.

[ND202/1-13V5; AG/LEGIS/SL/253/2015/2 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 36(3) of the Professional Engineers Act).

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