Singapore legislation

Section 39

of Children and Young Persons Act

Section 39

Rules

(1)

The Minister may make rules to give effect to the provisions of this Part.

(2)

In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing powers, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters:

(a)

the care, maintenance and education of children or young persons committed to the care, custody or control of any person under the provisions of this Act, and the duties of persons to whose care, custody or control the children or young persons have been committed;

(b)

the regulation of conditions of labour of children and young persons and their production for inspection;

(c)

the regulation of hours and days of work of children and young persons;

(d)

the regulation of night work, both as to hours and conditions, of children and young persons;

(e)

the prescription of conditions to be attached to licences for the employment of children or young persons in public entertainment;

(f)

the care, detention, temporary absence, maintenance and education of children and young persons in places of safety;

(g)

the inspection of approved schools, approved homes and places of safety and returns to be furnished by persons in charge of such places;

(h)

the time within which notifications under section 13 and reports under section 14 shall be made and the manner in which such notifications and reports shall be recorded or noted;

(i)

the particulars (including photographs or other means of identification) to be furnished in relation to transferred children, their parents or persons required to make notifications in respect of transferred children, or persons having the custody of such children;

(j)

the forms of orders, warrants, summonses and bonds;

(k)

the forms of registers and other records required to be kept and the manner in which they shall be kept;

(l)

the furnishing of information as to changes of address of transferred children or of the persons having custody of them, and the transfer of records and registers in such cases;

(m)

the time and manner of lodging and determining appeals.

(3)

Such rules shall be published in the Gazette.