Singapore legislation

Clause 18

of Professional Engineers (Amendment) Bill

Clause 18

Amendment of section 26A

Section 26A of the principal Act is amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately after the words “professional engineering services” in subsection (1)(i), the words “relating to any of the prescribed branches of professional engineering work”;

(b)

by deleting subsection (2) and substituting the following subsections:“(2) The Board may, in any case in which it considers that no cause of sufficient gravity for revoking a licence exists —

(a)

by writing censure the corporation, partnership or limited liability partnership; or

(b)

by order impose on the corporation, partnership or limited liability partnership a penalty not exceeding $100,000.(2A) Any penalty imposed under subsection (2)(b) is to be collected, and may be sued for and recovered by the Board.”; and

(c)

by inserting, immediately after the words “professional engineering services” in subsection (6)(b), the words “relating to any of the prescribed branches of professional engineering work”.