Singapore legislation

Section 23

of Employment of Foreign Manpower Act 1990

Section 23

Abetment of offences

Amended by24/2012

(1)

Any person who abets the commission of an offence under this Act shall be guilty of the offence and shall be liable on conviction to be punished with the punishment provided for that offence.

Amended by24/2012

(2)

Where an occupier is charged for abetting another person who has employed a foreign employee in contravention of section 5(1), it shall not be sufficient for the occupier to prove in the occupier’s defence that the occupier had instructed the other person not to, or obtained from the other person an undertaking that the other person would not, so employ a foreign employee.