Employment of Foreign Manpower (Work Passes) (Amendment) Regulations 2007

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 28 Nov 2007

No. S 636

Employment of Foreign Manpower Act

(Chapter 91A)

Employment of Foreign Manpower (Work Passes) (Amendment) Regulations 2007

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 2007 and shall come into operation on 1st December 2007.

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 (g) and by inserting immediately thereafter the following sub-paragraph:

“(ga)

work holiday pass; and”.

New regulation 10A

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

“Work holiday pass

10A. —(1) Every application for a work holiday pass shall be submitted by the foreigner and shall —

(a)

be made in such form as the Controller may determine;

(b)

be supported by an undertaking from the foreigner that he, while a holder of a work holiday pass —

(i)	will have sufficient funds to ensure that the standard of living (including accommodation) of himself is consistent with the reasonable standard of living in Singapore;
(ii)	will pay the costs of his repatriation or departure from Singapore, and reimburse the Government all reasonable costs it incurs in locating, detaining and removing from Singapore the foreigner; and
(iii)	will comply with any quarantine and medical surveillance imposed on him under any written law; and

(c)

be supported by such other documents as the Controller may require.

“(2) A work holiday pass issued to a foreigner may be cancelled on an application to the Controller made by the holder thereof (or his personal representative) and in such form and manner as the Controller may determine.”.

Amendment of Schedule

4. The Schedule to the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the full-stop at the end of item 7 and by inserting immediately thereafter the following item:

“

8. Work holiday pass

Issuance of a work holiday pass

$40.

”.

Made this 15th day of November 2007.

LEO YIP

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Manpower,
Singapore.

[WPSD 6:2/EFMA/05; AG/LEG/SL/91A/2003/2 Vol. 1]

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

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