Singapore legislation
Clause 19
Clause 19
Amendment of section 80G
(1)
Section 80G of the principal Act is amended —
by deleting paragraph (b) of subsection (4);
by deleting paragraphs (c) and (d) of subsection (4) and substituting the following paragraphs:“(c)the progressive wage plan in respect of its cleaning business submitted by the applicant complies with the prescribed requirements;
in the case of an applicant who has one or more cleaners in the applicant’s employ at the time of the application — the applicant satisfies the Director‑General that such proportion of the cleaners that the applicant employs, have attended such training, and at such frequency, as the Director‑General may specify;”;
by deleting paragraph (e) of subsection (4) and substituting the following paragraphs:“(e)the paid‑up capital or (where the applicant is not a corporation) net worth of the applicant for the period specified by the Director‑General, is not less than the amount specified by the Director‑General for the class of the cleaning business licence that is being applied for (if specified);
the applicant has obtained a valid certification relating to the safety, health and welfare of persons at work in the applicant’s workplace, of a type that is specified by the Director‑General for the class of the cleaning business licence that is being applied for (if specified); and
the applicant satisfies all other prescribed requirements for the class of the cleaning business licence that is being applied for.”;
by inserting, immediately after subsection (4), the following subsection:“(4A) The Director-General may subdivide cleaning business licences (whether granted or renewed before, on or after the date of commencement of section 19(1)(d) of the Environmental Public Health (Amendment) Act 2023) into classes, such as according to any of the following, and may grant or renew a cleaning business licence on or after that date accordingly for one or more such classes:
the type of cleaning business that the cleaning business licensee is authorised to carry on;
the paid‑up capital or net worth (as the case may be) of the cleaning business licensee;
the cleaning business licensee’s compliance history with —
the requirements of this Act, the Central Provident Fund Act 1953, the Employment Act 1968, the Employment of Foreign Manpower Act 1990 and the Workplace Safety and Health Act 2006; and
any order made by an Employment Claims Tribunal under section 22 of the Employment Claims Act 2016.”;
by deleting subsection (5); and
by deleting subsection (8) and substituting the following subsection:“(8) In this section —
Definition
“corporation” has the meaning given by section 4(1) of the Companies Act 1967;
Definition
“Employment Claims Tribunal” means a subordinate court called an Employment Claims Tribunal constituted under section 4 of the State Courts Act 1970;
Definition
“net worth” of a person means the amount by which the person’s assets exceeds the person’s liabilities.”.
(2)
Section 80G(4) of the principal Act, as amended by subsection (1)(b), is further amended by inserting, immediately after the words “as the Director‑General may specify” in paragraph (d), the words “for the class of the cleaning business licence that is being applied for”.