Singapore legislation

Clause 11

of Women’s Charter (Amendment) Bill

Clause 11

Amendment of section 85

Section 85 of the Women’s Charter is amended —

(a)

by deleting the word “and” at the end of subsection (1)(a)(iii);

(b)

by deleting the full-stop at the end of paragraph (b) of subsection (1) and substituting the word “; and”, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following paragraph:“(c)order the Central Provident Fund Board to furnish a statement to the person who took out the proceedings stating the following information, if such information is available to the Board based on records kept by the Board:

(i)

the name and address of the defendant’s employer or employers or, if the defendant is unemployed, the defendant’s last known employer or employers in the 12 months immediately preceding the date of the order; and

(ii)

the contributions, if any, made by the defendant or his employer to the defendant’s Central Provident Fund account in the 12 months immediately preceding the date of the order.”; and

(c)

by inserting, immediately after subsection (2), the following subsection:“(3) In this section, “employer” has the same meaning as in section 2(1) of the Central Provident Fund Act (Cap. 36).”.