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No. S 902

Employment of Foreign Manpower Act

(CHAPTER 91A)

Employment of Foreign Manpower
(Work Passes) (Amendment)
Regulations 2018

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

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations are the Employment of Foreign Manpower (Work Passes) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 and come into operation on 1 January 2019.

Amendment of First Schedule

2. The First Schedule to the Employment of Foreign Manpower (Work Passes) Regulations 2012 (G.N. No. S 569/2012) is amended —

(a)	by deleting the words “that affords reasonable access to the foreign employee’s hometown within the foreign employee’s home country” in paragraph 7 of Part I and substituting the words “within the foreign employee’s home country that affords reasonable access to the foreign employee’s hometown”; and
(b)	by deleting the words “that affords reasonable access to the foreign employee’s hometown within the foreign employee’s home country” in paragraph 7 of Part III and substituting the words “within the foreign employee’s home country that affords reasonable access to the foreign employee’s hometown”.

Amendment of Fourth Schedule

3. The Fourth Schedule to the Employment of Foreign Manpower (Work Passes) Regulations 2012 is amended —

(a)

by deleting the words “that affords reasonable access to the foreign employee’s hometown within the foreign employee’s home country” in paragraph 21 of Part I and substituting the words “within the foreign employee’s home country that affords reasonable access to the foreign employee’s hometown”;

(b)

by inserting, immediately after paragraph 5B of Part II, the following paragraph:

“5C. The employer must not by any means (and with or without the assistance of another) prevent or restrict the access to or use by the foreign employee of any salary or moneys belonging to the foreign employee, regardless of any consent by the foreign employee.”; and

(c)

by deleting the words “that affords reasonable access to the foreign employee’s hometown within the foreign employee’s home country” in paragraph 12 of Part III and substituting the words “within the foreign employee’s home country that affords reasonable access to the foreign employee’s hometown”.

[G.N. Nos. S 177/2013; S 563/2013; S 333/2015; S 143/2017; S 547/2017]

Made on 28 December 2018.

AUBECK KAM

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Manpower,
Singapore.

[HQ/Legis/EFMA/EFMR Jan 2019; AG/LEGIS/SL/91A/2015/4 Vol. 3]

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