Singapore legislation
Clause 11
Clause 11
Illegal practice
(1)
Subject to the provisions of this Act, no person shall draw or prepare any plan, sketch, drawing, design, specification or other document relating to any professional engineering work in Singapore unless at the time of so doing the person is —
a registered professional engineer who has in force a practising certificate authorising him to engage in such professional engineering work; or
under the direction or supervision of a registered professional engineer who has in force a practising certificate authorising the professional engineer to engage in such professional engineering work.
(2)
Subject to the provisions of this Act, no person shall sign and submit to a building authority —
any plan, sketch, drawing, design, specification or other document relating to any professional engineering work in Singapore; or
any report on or a certificate or other document relating to any professional engineering work in Singapore which is required by any written law to be signed by a professional engineer,unless at the time of so doing the person is a registered professional engineer who has in force a practising certificate authorising him to engage in such professional engineering work; and any document that is signed in contravention of this subsection shall be invalid.
(3)
Subject to the provisions of this Act, no person shall use verbally or otherwise —
the words “professional engineer” or any additions to or abbreviation or derivative of those words in connection with his designation;
the word “engineer” or the abbreviation “Er.” or “Engr.” as a title before his name; or
any word, name or designation that will lead to the belief that the person is a registered professional engineer,unless at the time of so doing the person is a registered professional engineer.
(4)
Subject to the provisions of this Act, no person shall advertise or hold himself out or conduct himself in any way or by any means as a person who is authorised to engage in any professional engineering work in Singapore, unless at the time of so doing the person is a registered professional engineer who has in force a practising certificate, a licensed corporation, a licensed partnership or a partnership consisting wholly of registered professional engineers.
(5)
Subject to the provisions of this Act, no person shall engage in any professional engineering work in Singapore unless at the time of so doing the person is —
a registered professional engineer who has in force a practising certificate authorising him to engage in such professional engineering work and is doing so on his own account or as a partner in a licensed partnership or partnership consisting wholly of registered professional engineers;
an allied professional and is doing so as a partner in a licensed partnership;
a licensed corporation; or
under the direction or supervision of a registered professional engineer who has in force a practising certificate authorising the registered professional engineer to engage in such professional engineering work.
(6)
Any person who contravenes subsection (1), (2), (3), (4) or (5) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $5,000 and, for a second or subsequent offence, to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both.
(7)
Nothing in this section shall be construed to permit or authorise any licensed corporation or partnership to engage in any professional engineering work which it is not licensed to engage in.