Singapore legislation
Clause 5
Clause 5
Powers of the Minister to make orders directing employment of registered persons
(1)
The Minister may, by order published in the Gazette, direct that, after such date as may be specified therein, an employer to whom such order applies shall not, except with the written consent of the Director, engage or re-engage any employee otherwise than from among registered persons.
(2)
No order made under subsection (1) of this section shall apply to an employer who takes or offers to take into his employment at any time a person whom apart from that subsection it would have been his duty to take into employment either —
by virtue of any written law; or
by virtue of any agreement made before the coming into operation of this Act.
(3)
An order made under subsection (1) of this section may be made so as to apply —
either to all employers or to such employers or class of employers as may be specified in the order; and
either to all employees or to such employees or class of employees as may be specified in the order,and may provide that any directions contained in the order shall not apply in any specified circumstances.
(4)
Any employer who contravenes the provisions of an order made under subsection (1) of this section shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and in respect of each employee employed by him in contravention of any such provision, to a further fine not exceeding fifty dollars for each day on which that employee is so employed.
(5)
Where, in respect of the employment of any person, there has been any contravention of the provisions of an order made under subsection (1) of this section, such person shall not, by reason only of such contravention, be deemed to be employed under an illegal contract of employment.
(6)
Any order made under subsection (1) of this section may be varied or revoked by a subsequent order of the Minister published in the Gazette.