Singapore legislation
Section 22B
Section 22B
Proscribed manpower-related practices
(1)
Any person who —
obtains a work pass for a foreign employee for a trade or business that does not exist, that is not in operation or that does not require the employment of such a foreign employee; and
fails to employ the foreign employee,shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction be punished with imprisonment for a presumptive minimum term of not less than 6 months and not more than 2 years and shall also be liable to a fine not exceeding $6,000.
(2)
Where any person is —
charged with more than 5 offences under subsection (1); and
convicted of at least 6 of those offences at the same trial,the person shall be punished, subject to sections 325(1) and 330(1) of the Criminal Procedure Code 2010, with caning in addition to the punishment prescribed for those offences.
(3)
Where, by virtue of sections 325(1) and 330(1) of the Criminal Procedure Code 2010, the person mentioned in subsection (2) is not punishable with caning, he or she shall, in lieu of caning, be punished with a fine not exceeding $10,000.