Clause 7

No collective agreement to which this section applies shall contain provisions with regard to terms and conditions of service that are more favourable to employees than those contained in Part IV of the Employment Act, 1968 (Act ............ of 1968), unless such provisions are approved by the Minister after considering any representations in that regard made by an employer and a trade union representing his employees:Provided that the Minister may, before making a decision on any such representations, by writing under his hand request the Court to inquire and report to him whether it is desirable that any such representations should be allowed and, if so, whether with or without modification.(2) This section applies to collective agreements made between an employer and a trade union representing his employees in respect of, or in relation to —

an industrial undertaking that has commenced or commences operation in Singapore on or after the 1st day of January 1968;

such other undertaking that has commenced or commences operation in Singapore on or after the 1st day of January 1968, as the Minister may approve for the purposes of this section.(3) In this section “industrial undertaking” means —

an undertaking in which articles are manufactured, assembled, altered, cleaned, repaired, ornamented, finished, adapted for sale, broken up or demolished or in which materials are transformed, including undertakings engaged in shipbuilding or in the generation, transformation or transmission of electricity or motive power of any kind;

an undertaking engaged in the transport of passengers or goods by road, rail, sea, inland waterways or air, including the handling of goods at docks, quays, wharves, warehouses or airports;

a hotel or catering business or a tourist enterprise, as defined in the Tourist Promotion Board Ordinance, 1963 (Ord. 35 of 1963); and

a pioneer enterprise, as defined under section 3 of the Economic Expansion Incentives (Relief from Income Tax) Act, 1967 (Act 36 of 1967).(4) The provisions of this section shall apply to undertakings specified in subsection (2) of this section for a period of five years from the date such undertakings commence, or have commenced, operation in Singapore:Provided that the Minister may from time to time by notification in the Gazette extend such period for such further period or periods as the Minister may decide.”.