Clause 15

by deleting the words “shall, after examination at the expense of the employer by a medical practitioner appointed by the employer or a medical officer, be entitled to such paid sick leave, as may be certified by the medical practitioner or medical officer” in subsections (1) and (2) and substituting in each case the words “is entitled, after examination by a medical practitioner, to such paid sick leave, as may be certified by the medical practitioner”;

by deleting subsection (3) and substituting the following subsection:“(3) For the purposes of this section —

an employee is hospitalised if the employee is warded in an approved hospital in such circumstances as may be prescribed; and

an employee, who is discharged from an approved hospital after being warded in that approved hospital in accordance with paragraph (a), is deemed to be hospitalised for a continuous period, beginning immediately after that discharge, if the employee is certified, by a medical practitioner employed by that approved hospital —

to be ill enough to need to remain hospitalised during that period; or

to need rest during that period in order to recover.”;

by deleting the words “appointed by the employer or a medical officer” in subsection (4)(a);

by deleting paragraph (b) of subsection (4) and substituting the following paragraph:“(b)which is certified by a medical practitioner not appointed by the employer, but of which the employee did not inform or attempt to inform the employer within 48 hours after its commencement,”;

by inserting, immediately after subsection (7), the following subsection:“(7A) Where an employee has served an employer for a period of at least 3 months, the employer is liable to bear, or to reimburse the employee, the fees of an examination of the employee by a medical practitioner, if —

the medical practitioner is appointed by the employer or is a medical officer; and

after the examination, the employee is certified by the medical practitioner to be entitled to paid sick leave.”;

by deleting the words “For the purposes of subsections (1) and (2), an employer shall be deemed to fulfil the obligation imposed by those subsections to bear the fees of any medical examination of his employees” in subsection (8) and substituting the words “An employer is deemed to fulfil the employer’s obligation under subsection (7A)”;

by deleting the words “or medical officer” in subsection (10); and

by inserting, immediately after subsection (10), the following subsection:“(11) In this section, “approved hospital” means any hospital or other medical institution that the Minister declares, by notification in the Gazette, to be an approved hospital.”.