Singapore legislation
Clause 63
Clause 63
Payment of salary through bank
(1)
Nothing in section 54 or 56 of this Act shall operate so as to render unlawful or invalid any payment of salary by the employer to the workman with the workman’s written consent in any of the following ways: —
payment into an account at a bank in Singapore, being an account in the name of the workman or an account in the name of the workman jointly with one or more other persons;
payment by cheque made payable to or to the order of the workman.
(2)
The consent of the workman under this section may be withdrawn by him at any time by notice in writing given to the employer. Such notice shall take effect at but not before the end of the period of four weeks beginning with the day on which the notice is given.
(3)
Where the salary or part thereof has been paid in any of the ways set out in subsection (1) of this section, section 57 of this Act shall not operate to give a right of recovery of so much of the salary which has been so paid.