Singapore legislation

Clause 25

of Professional Engineers (Amendment) Bill

Clause 25

Validation

(1)

This section applies to the following sums purportedly collected by or on behalf of the Board before the date of commencement of this section:

(a)

any sum collected from any person mentioned in section 10(1)(c) of the principal Act as a fee for authorisation under that section;

(b)

any sum collected from any person as an application fee for recognition to carry out professional engineering work in a country or territory outside Singapore.

(2)

Every sum mentioned in —

(a)

subsection (1)(a) is, and is taken always to have been, by force of this section, validly imposed and collected under section 10(1A) of the principal Act as amended by this Act; and no legal proceedings may be instituted on or after 1 August 2017 in any court on account of or in respect of any such collection; and

(b)

subsection (1)(b) is, and is taken always to have been, by force of this section, validly imposed and collected under section 10A(1) of the principal Act inserted by section 10 of this Act; and no legal proceedings may be instituted on or after 1 August 2017 in any court on account of or in respect of any such collection.

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