Singapore legislation
Section 78
Section 78
Contributions to Mosque Building and Mendaki Fund
(1)
Subject to the provisions of this Act and any rules made under section 81, every employer of a Muslim employee must pay to the Mosque Building and Mendaki Fund monthly in respect of each Muslim employee contributions as set out in the Third Schedule.
(2)
Despite the provisions of any written law or any contract to the contrary, an employer is entitled to recover from the monthly wages of a Muslim employee any contributions paid to the Mosque Building and Mendaki Fund on behalf of the employee.
(3)
Any employer who fails to pay the contributions mentioned in subsection (1) within such time as may be prescribed shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $500.
(4)
An employer who has recovered any amount from the monthly wages of an employee in accordance with subsection (2) and fails to pay such contributions to the Mosque Building and Mendaki Fund within such time as may be prescribed shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000.
(5)
The Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, vary the amount of contributions payable by an employer in respect of each Muslim employee and may prescribe different amounts of contributions payable by the employer in respect of different classes of Muslim employees.
(6)
Without affecting subsections (1) and (2) —
an employee may at any time contribute voluntarily to the Mosque Building and Mendaki Fund a sum in addition to that referred to in subsection (1) as payable by his or her employer; or
an employee who desires to have contributions in excess of the amount deducted from his or her monthly wages by his or her employer may give to his or her employer written notice to that effect and thereafter, so long as he or she is employed by the employer, the employer may make such deduction from the employee’s wages for each month until such time, not being less than 6 months from the date of giving such notice, as the employee gives further written notice to his or her employer of his or her desire to cease to have such excess monthly contributions deducted from his or her wages.
(7)
The employer must pay the amount of excess deductions under subsection (6) to the Mosque Building and Mendaki Fund in addition to the appropriate monthly contributions.
(8)
Any contribution recoverable from the wages of an employee in accordance with subsection (1) must be recovered by the employer from the wages in respect of which the contribution is payable at the time of payment of those wages or within such time as may be prescribed and not otherwise.
(9)
Any excess contributions paid into the Mosque Building and Mendaki Fund under subsection (7) is, unless the employee making the contribution otherwise indicates, deemed to be for the purpose of building mosques.