Singapore legislation

Clause 7

of Professional Engineers (Amendment) Bill

Clause 7

Amendment of section 10

Section 10 of the principal Act is amended —

(a)

by deleting subsection (1) and substituting the following subsections:“(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, no person shall engage in any of the prescribed branches of professional engineering work in Singapore or draw or prepare any plan, sketch, drawing, design, specification or other document relating to any of the prescribed branches of professional engineering work in Singapore unless the person —

(a)

is a registered professional engineer who has in force a practising certificate authorising him to engage in that branch of professional engineering work;

(b)

is under the direction or supervision of a registered professional engineer who has in force a practising certificate authorising the professional engineer to engage in that branch of professional engineering work; or

(c)

is authorised by the Board to work in collaboration (but without a right to any independent practice) with a registered professional engineer who has in force a practising certificate authorising the registered professional engineer to engage in that branch of professional engineering work.(1A) The Board may grant its authorisation to any person under subsection (1)(c) subject to such conditions as the Board thinks fit to impose.”;

(b)

by inserting, immediately after the words “building authority” in subsection (2), the words “or to a public authority (as defined in section 3(2))”;

(c)

by inserting, immediately after subsection (3), the following subsection:“(3A) Where the Board has authorised any person under subsection (1)(c) to work in collaboration with a registered professional engineer, the Board may allow that person to use such addition to or derivative of the words “professional engineer” as may be approved by the Board.”;

(d)

by inserting, immediately after the words “a licensed partnership” in subsection (4), the words “, a licensed limited liability partnership”;

(e)

by inserting, immediately after the word “corporation” wherever it appears in the proviso to subsection (4), the words “or limited liability partnership”;

(f)

by inserting, immediately after the words “a licensed partnership” in subsection (5)(a), the words “, licensed limited liability partnership”;

(g)

by inserting, immediately after the words “a licensed partnership” in subsection (5)(b), the words “or limited liability partnership”;

(h)

by inserting, immediately after the words “a licensed corporation” in subsection (5)(c), the words “or limited liability partnership”;

(i)

by deleting the words “corporation or partnership” in subsection (7) and substituting the words “corporation, partnership or limited liability partnership”; and

(j)

by inserting, immediately after subsection (7), the following subsection:“(8) In this section, “prescribed branches of professional engineering work” means —

(a)

civil engineering;

(b)

electrical engineering;

(c)

mechanical engineering; and

(d)

such other branches of engineering as may be prescribed.”.

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